Giant Eastern Crane Fly

Pedicia albivitta · Order: Diptera · Family: Pediciidae

No source yet on danger. We have no source yet on whether it bites, stings or damages anything.
Giant Eastern Crane Fly
Photo: Ray Fisher, CC BY

The Giant Eastern Crane Fly looks almost identical to Pedicia goldsworthyi. Only male specimens can be reliably separated by examining their genitalia.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Males are distinguished from similar species by the shape of their genitalia.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 23 of 51 states and DC. Most records: New York, Vermont, Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Giant Eastern Crane Fly photo 2
Photo: Megan Massa, CC BY
Giant Eastern Crane Fly photo 3
Photo: Luke Wildfire, CC BY
Giant Eastern Crane Fly photo 4
Photo: CatherineK, CC BY-SA
Giant Eastern Crane Fly photo 5
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedicia_albivitta

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-26 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-26.

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