Nephrotoma quadrifaria

{{Short description|Species of fly}}

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| image = Nephrotoma quadrifaria01.jpg

| genus = Nephrotoma

| species = quadrifaria

| authority = (Meigen, 1804)

| synonyms = *Tipula quadrifaria Meigen, 1804

• Tipula dentata Meigen, 1838
• Pachyrhina fascipennis (Zetterstedt, 1851)
• Nephrotoma dentata (Meigen, 1838)
• Nephrotoma fascipennis (Zetterstedt, 1851)

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Nephrotoma quadrifaria, also known as the four-spotted cranefly, is a species of true cranefly found in most of Europe and Great Britain.{{Cite book |last=Brock |first=Paul D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m6G6DwAAQBAJ |title=Britain's Insects: A Field Guide to the Insects of Great Britain and Ireland |date=2021-06-08 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-20499-4 |pages=343 |language=en}} The subspecies N. q. farsidica is found in Iran.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNIYAQAAIAAJ |title=Beaufortia |date=1977 |publisher=Institute for Systematics and Population Biology (Zoological Museum), University of Amsterdam |pages=88, 93 |language=en}}