crane fly

English Thesaurus

1. long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects,
definition	:	insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family tipulidae, tipulidae,
definition	:	crane flies (noun.animal)