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Arctopiophila arctica

Description

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.

Notes

Published as part of Sabrina Rochefort & Terry A. Wheeler, 2015, Diversity of Piophilidae (Diptera) in northern Canada and description of a new Holarctic species of Parapiophila McAlpine, pp. 229-240 in Zootaxa 3925 on page 231, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.2.5

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Biodiversity

Family
Piophilidae
Genus
Arctopiophila
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
arctica
Taxon rank
species