INSECTS AND ARACHNIDS OF BATHURST ISLAND, CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO

• Published in: The Canadian Entomologist
• Main Authors: Danks, H. V., Byers, J. R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1972
• Subjects: Insect Science; Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Arctic; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Bathurst Island; Arctic Archipelago; Queen Elizabeth Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent10481-1; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X00041602

Abstract Terrestrial arthropods collected from Bathurst Island in 1969 are listed: 78 species (4 spiders, 13 mites, and 61 insects, 30 of which are chironomids) have now been collected in this area of the high arctic. Notes on the overwintering of some of the commoner insect species are given. Altho...