order
                        
                      
                                    Coleoptera
                                       “Adult Beetles”
                                  
                                    Coleoptera
                                       “Larval Beetles”
                                  
                                    Diptera
                                       “True Flies”
                                  
                                    Ephemeroptera
                                       “Mayflies”
                                  
                                    Hemiptera
                                       “True Bugs”
                                  
                                    Lepidoptera
                                       “Aquatic Caterpillars, Snout Moths”
                                  
                                    Megaloptera
                                       “Alderflies, Dobsonflies, and Fishflies”
                                  
                                    Odonata
                                       “Dragonflies and Damselflies”
                                  
                                    Plecoptera
                                       “Stoneflies”
                                  
                                    Trichoptera
                                       “Caddisflies”
                                 family
                        
                     Pediciidae
            
               “Hairy-eyed Crane Flies”
            
      Family Overview
                  
               
                           Pediciidae
                               
                              
                        
                            
                              
                        Hairy-eyed Crane Flies
                     
                        The head is not evident, but is retracted inside the thorax; there are no segmented legs; abdominal segments have paired fleshy prolegs on five segments or roughened creeping welts on 4 segments; the posterior end of the abdomen has a pair of long slender lobes and sometimes with retractile anal gills below them.
                  
               Characteristics
                  
               POLLUTION TOLERANCE
                        No pollution tolerance ranges defined.
                        FEEDING HABITS
                        
                                 Engulfer / Predator
                        
                     MOVEMENT
                        
                                 Burrower
Sprawler
                        
                     Sprawler
Diagnostic Characters
               order
                      
                                       
                                    Legs Absent
                                 family
                         
                                       
                                    Head Capsule Sclerotized and Mostly Retracted
                                  
                                       
                                    Long Ventral Lobes on Abdominal Apex
                                  
                                       
                                    Mandibles Moving Horizontally
                                 
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                        Order:
                           Wings and wing pads absent. Eye spots sometimes visible, but compound eyes absent. Segmented legs absent, but sometimes fleshy prolegs present. Sometimes with distinct head, often without head or with head drawn deeply into thorax. Body flattened, cylindrical, or maggot-like.
                     
                     
                        Family:
                           The head is not evident, but is retracted inside the thorax; there are no segmented legs; abdominal segments have paired fleshy prolegs on five segments or roughened creeping welts on 4 segments; the posterior end of the abdomen has a pair of long slender lobes and sometimes with retractile anal gills below them.
                     
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