Clinocera nivalis

• Main Authors: Shamshev, Igor V., Sinclair, Bradley J., Khruleva, Olga A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Empididae; Clinocera; Clinocera nivalis; Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Sinclair; Wrangel Island; Sovetskaya; Vorota; Matochkin Shar; Chukotka; Murmanskaya; Novaya Zemlya; Russian Arctic islands; Subarctic; Tundra; Yakutia; Lapland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4477197; https://zenodo.org/record/4477197

Clinocera nivalis (Zetterstedt) (Fig. 3) Hemerodromia nivalis Zetterstedt, 1838: 545. Type locality: Lapland, (?) Sweden. Other references: Sinclair, 2008: 174 (revision, redescription); Shamshev, 2016: 19 (checklist). Material examined. RUSSIA. Archangelskaya Prov. (Novaya Zemlya Archipelago): Southern coast near Cape Cherny, 21, 29.vii.1911, Rusakov (1 ♂, 2 ♀, ZIN); Eastern coast, Karskie vorota—Matochkin Shar, viii–ix, Rusakov (1 ♂, 1 ♀, ZIN); Matochkin Shar, brook Nochuev, 22.v.1925 (1 ♀, ZIN), Vakulenko; Matochkin Shar, 10.vii.1925, Vakulenko (1 ♀, ZIN). Chukotka AO (Wrangel Island) : SW mountain Sovetskaya, upper flow of Khrustalnaya River, under snowfield on detritus, 3.viii.1971, KBG (1 ♀, ZIN); Mineev Mtns, 5 km N Somnitelnaya, slope, swamp spring, 26.vii.1971, KBG (1 ♂, 1 ♀, ZIN); lower flow of Khischniki River, foothills of Mineev Mtns, swamp tundra, 11.vii.1972, KBG (1 ♂, ZIN); Rogers Bay, small swamp, on surface of water, 20.vii.1971, KBG (2 ♂, 1 ♀, ZIN). Recognition. This species of Clinocera is readily distinguished by the presence of an auxiliary crossvein between R 2+3 and R 4, lower half of face with silvery pruinescence and a dark ring around the anterior spiracle (Fig. 3). Distribution. A Holarctic species distributed across the subarctic and arctic areas of Eurasia and North America (Sinclair 2008). In Russia, C . nivalis is known from Murmanskaya Province, Novaya Zemlya, north of Yakutia, Chukotka and Wrangel Island. Habitat. On Wrangel Island, this species was collected in various wet habitats. Genus Trichoclinocera Collin : Published as part of Shamshev, Igor V., Sinclair, Bradley J. & Khruleva, Olga A., 2020, The empidoid flies (Diptera: Empidoidea, exclusive of Dolichopodidae) of the Russian Arctic islands and Svalbard Archipelago, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 4848 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4848.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4406987 : {"references": ["Zetterstedt, J. W. (1838) Sectio tertia. Diptera. Dipterologia Scandinaviae amicis et popularibus carissimus. In: Insecta Lapponica. L. Voss, Lipsiae (Leipzig), pp. 477 - 868.", "Sinclair, B. J. (2008) The Systematics of New World Clinocera Meigen (Diptera: Empididae: Clinocerinae). NRC Research Press, Ottawa, viii + 245 pp.", "Shamshev, I. V. (2016) An annotated checklist of empidoid flies (Diptera: Empidoidea, except Dolichopodidae) of Russia. Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society, 87, 3 - 183."]}