Published December 31, 2015 | Version v1
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Parapiophila pectiniventris

Description

Parapiophila pectiniventris (Duda)

NBP/NIS material examined. 1 ♂ from Yukon Territory: North Fork Pass, (Dempster Hwy nr North Fork Pass, (64.58353°, -138.26843°), 1325m, Repl. 3 mesic, Malaise trap, 27.vi–1.vii.2011, NBP field Party) (LEM).

Comments. Parapiophila pectiniventris is present in the Palaearctic (Ozerov 2004b; Roháček & Ševčik 2009) and in Greenland (Duda 1924). This is the first record from continental North America.

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 236, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.2.5

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Biodiversity

Family
Piophilidae
Genus
Parapiophila
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
pectiniventris
Taxon rank
species