Diversity of Piophilidae (Diptera) in northern Canada and description of a new Holarctic species of Parapiophila McAlpine
Author
Rochefort, Sabrina
Author
Wheeler, Terry A.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3925
2
229
240
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3925.2.5
abeb2b02-dcf3-4e2f-b265-cb6c308e8b59
1175-5326
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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
.