What flying insect is this? Resembles Wasp / Crane Fly / Moth? What insect is this? Found this in southern `Bangalore, India`. Looked dangerous, flew really slowly with its body upright and legs spread out and landed on a wall. Size: about `1.5 inches` tall, `1.5 inches` wide, when spread. These photos are zoomed in and rather dull colored, but the actual color was a bright orange, like `#FF9050` and dark black. ![1]( ![2]( ![3](

**Pselliophora laeta**, a species of crane fly ( ** _Tipulidae_** ) in the **_Ctenophorinae_** subfamily.

Route to discovery: Reverse image searching my own photo on Google led me to a matching image on Naturalista (Familia Tipulidae), and in-turn to iNaturalist, which showed me to Genus Dictenidia. Further Googling for "Genus Dictenidia" brought up many families of crane-fly, which I visually scanned until I spotted it -- Pselliophora! That led to Wikipedia, and to this image, which mentions its source to be whatsthatbug, where the discussion cites **Pselliophora laeta** on India Nature Watch.

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Observed: Thiruvananthapuram, India; Jul 28, 2012 5:13 PM IST

**Mating Crane Flies from India** ![2]( ![3]( Source: <
Observed: Mumbai, India; Sep 30, 2010 1:43 AM IST