Diptera and Other Arthropods of the Sukkertoppen Tasersiaq Area, Southwest Greenland

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Richard, Paul W., Harmston, Fred C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1972
• Subjects: Icebreaking; Ice pressure; Ice-structure interaction; Louis S. St. Laurent (Ship); Manhattan (Ship); Marine transportation; Pressure ridges; Sea ice; Winds; Baffin Bay-Davis Strait; Baffin Bay; Greenland; Sukkertoppen; Tasersiaq; Arctic; Baffin; Davis Strait
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66002

Arthropods were collected in the Sukkertoppen area of Greenland (66°16'N, 51°13'W) during the summer of 1963 and identified. Thirty-one families of insects in the orders Neuroptera, Trichoptera, Homoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera were collected. Seventeen of the 31 families of insects were Diptera, and these comprised more than 90% of the total insects collected. Other insect families collected and identified included Hemerobiidae, Cicadellidae, Lygaeidae, Coccinellidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae, Arctiidae, Noctuidae, Lymantriidae, Ichneumonidae, and Bombidae. Dipping of aquatic habitats produced specimens of Dytiscidae and Limnephilidae. Other arthropods collected by dipping or sweeping included Bdellidae, Eviphididae, and Cheyletidae (Acarina), and Branchinectidae and Lepiduridae (Crustacea).