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A SWARM OF MALES OF THE RARE AND PRIMITIVE CRANEFLY PROTOPLASA FITCHII OBSERVED NEAR CHANDLER IN THE GASPE PENINSULA (DIPTERA)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. C. Crampton
G. C. Crampton
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass.
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While making an “auto” trip around the Gaspé Peninsula (Province of Quebec) in the summer of 1928. I encountered a swarm of dark-winged insects which I at first took to be may flies “dancing” over a bridge across a river to the west of Chandler—a town on the south shore, well out toward the eastern end of the Gaspé Peninsula. Stopping the car, I descended to inalte a few “investigational” sweepings with my net, and to my utter amazement discovered that I had captured a net full of males of the rare and much-sought (because of its primitiveness) “cranefly” Pratoplasa fitchii, O.S., a member of the superfamily Psychodoidea.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , March 1929 , pp. 70 - 72
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1929

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