A crane fly with a brown, elongated body, clear wings and long legs resting on a leaf. This shot shows the back view.

A view of the crane fly from the side.

A view of the crane fly from the back, from further away. It shows the legs extending away from the body, which are more than three body lengths long.

A Large Crane Fly, recently IDed as genus Maekistocera, spotted in Singapore on 25 Aug 2024. It has very long legs, as the last image shows.

ON iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].

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