| Dicranomyia | |
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| Dicranomyia modesta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Limoniidae |
| Subfamily: | Limoniinae |
| Genus: | Dicranomyia Stephens, 1829 |
| Type species | |
| Limnobia modesta Meigen, 1818
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Dicranomyia is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae. Larvae are mostly aquatic or semi-aquatic, with an exception found in a single Hawaiian Islands species which has a leaf-mining larva.[3]
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