Arctopiophila arctica

Sabrina Rochefort & Terry A. Wheeler, 2015, Diversity of Piophilidae (Diptera) in northern Canada and description of a new Holarctic species of Parapiophila McAlpine, Zootaxa 3925, pp. 229-240 : 231

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3925.2.5

publication LSID

http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E71FDC0A-1211-480F-89A6-2F8BEB304592

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6112678

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5C7B87F6-FFA4-FFF3-FFD8-AFCEFD1A78D4

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scientific name

Arctopiophila arctica
status

 

Arctopiophila arctica (Holmgren)

NBP/NIS material examined. 40 ♂, 31 ♀ from the following sites: Northwest Territories: Banks Island; Nunavut: Cambridge Bay, Iqaluit, Kugluktuk, Lake Hazen; Yukon Territory: North Fork Pass (vi–viii.1952; vi–ix.1948; vii.2011) (CNC, LEM).

Comments. Arctopiophila arctica has been recorded from the high arctic and subarctic in both the Nearctic (Steyskal 1965; McAlpine 1977) and Palaearctic regions (Ozerov 2004b). We recorded it at all four high arctic sites, and two subarctic sites: North Fork Pass and Kugluktuk.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Piophilidae

Genus

Arctopiophila

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