Eretmoptera murphyi: pre-adapted to survive a colder climate

• Published in: Physiological Entomology
• Main Author: Worland, Michael Roger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
• Subjects: Zoology; Ecology and Environment; Antarctic; Signy Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/10583/; http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/123304162/PDFSTART

During the late 1960s, larvae of the flightless midge Eretmoptera murphyi Schaeffer were accidentally transferred from the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia to Signy Island in the maritime Antarctic. Higher insects are rare in the Antarctic and the introduction and establishment of a new species...