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Meoneura arctica Ozerov 1991

Description

Meoneura arctica Ozerov, 1991

Material: CANADA: 1♂, 20.vi.1960, British Columbia, Gahnon Road 6 mil. W Terrace, leg. B. Heming; USA: 1♂, 31.vii.1961, Colorado, Independence Pass, Lake Co., 11.500’, Treeline, leg. J. G. Chillcott.

Meoneura arctica can be easily identified by the characteristic shape of the male postabdomen that is figured in Ozerov (1991: 10, Fig. 7). I compared two specimens reported here with the original description and cannot find any reason to assume a new species. The record of Meoneura arctica is surprising because this species has previously only been known from the locus typicus (Russia, Yamal Peninsula) and Sweden (Brake 2011).

Notes

Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2016, Carnidae (Diptera) in the Canadian National Collection of Insects (Ottawa), with the description of five new species in Zootaxa 4084 (4), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4084.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1052329

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1960-06-20 , 1961-07-31
Family
Carnidae
Genus
Meoneura
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ozerov
Species
arctica
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1960-06-20 , 1961-07-31
Taxonomic concept label
Meoneura arctica Ozerov, 1991 sec. Stuke, 2016

References

  • Ozerov, A. L. (1991) New species of Micropezidae, Piophilidae and Carnidae (Diptera) from the USSR. Vestnik Zoologii, 6, 7 - 12.
  • Brake, I. (2011) World Catalog of the Family Carnidae (Diptera, Schizophora). Myia, 12, 113 - 169.