Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) ursinella Melander

• Main Authors: Sinclair, Bradley J., Vajda, Élodie A., Saigusa, Toyohei, Shamshev, Igor V., Wheeler, Terry A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Chironomidae; Rhamphomyia; Rhamphomyia ursinella; Arctic; Nunavut; Northwest Territories; Bylot Island; Canada; Eureka; Sandy Beach; Heiberg; Johansen; Cambridge Bay; Mould Bay; Fosheim Peninsula; Tanquary Fiord; Gypsum Hill; Hot Weather Creek; Bernard Harbour; Malloch; Melville Island
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3796960; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3796960

Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) ursinella Melander (Figs 48, 49) Rhamphomyia ursina Malloch, 1919: 46. Type-locality: Bernard Harbour, Nunavut, Canada. Other references: Cooper & Cumming, 1993: 33 (type catalogue). Rhamphomyia ursinella Melander, 1928: 209 (replacement name for ursina Malloch, preoccupied by Oldenberg, 1915: 91). Other references: Melander, 1965: 466 (catalogue); Downes, 1970: 781 (behaviour); Danks, 1981: 465 (arctic insects); Yang et al., 2007: 200 (catalogue). Type material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂ (Fig. 48C), labelled (Fig. 48D): “ HOLOTYPE / Rhamphomyia ursina Mall. / CNC No. 216 [red label]”; “Canadian/Arctic/Expedition/F.J. [F. Johansen] 1915”; “Sandy Beach/ July, 19 [hand written]”; “ Rhamphomyia /ursina/ Mall. Type [handwritten by Malloch?]” (CNC). PARATYPES: same data as holotype (1 ♀, CNC); same locality as holotype, July 1916 (1 ♀, CNC). There is an additional male specimen with the same label data as the holotype, but since there was no indication of the number of males examined and no range value provided for wing length, it is presumed that this specimen is not part of the type series. Additional material examined. CANADA. Northwest Territories: Bailey Point, Melville Island, 21– 26.vii.1965, J.E.H. Martin (8 ♂, 11 ♀, CNC); Mould Bay, Prince Patrick Is., 3.vii.1952, P.F. Bruggemann (2 ♂, 1 ♀, CNC); same locality, 11.vii.1950, C.O. Handley (1 ♂, 6 ♀, USNM). Nunavut: Aklinck R., S. coast of Bylot Island, 1–27.vii.1954, R. S. Miller (1 ♂, 3 ♀, CNC); Axel Heiberg Is., 79°25′N, 90°45′W, 19–23.vii.1963, H.K. Rutz (2 ♀, CNC); Axel Heiberg Is., 79°25′N, 90°45′W, Gypsum Hill, 20.vii.1963, H.K. Rutz (1 ♂, 6 ♀, CNC); Cambridge Bay, 19–21.vii.1950, G.K. Seatman (2 ♀, CNC); Ellesmere Is., 79°58′N, 84°28′W, 7–14.vii.1988, 2.viii.1989, S.A. Edlund (3 ♂, 5 ♀, CNC); Ellesmere Is., Tanquary Fiord, 7.viii.1988, pan trap, S.A. Edlund (1 ♂, CNC); Eureka, Ellesmere Is., 3.viii.1963, J. R. Vockeroth (1 ♂, 1 ♀, CNC); Fosheim Peninsula, Hot Weather Creek, Ellesmere Is., 79°58′N, 84°28′W, 5.vii.1990, F. ...