Meoneura flavifacies Collin 1930

• Main Author: Stuke, Jens-Hermann
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Carnidae; Meoneura; Meoneura flavifacies; Abisko; Aiyansh; Alta; British Columbia; Canada; Columbia Point; Orion; Lapland
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6061042; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6061042

Meoneura flavifacies Collin, 1930 Material: CANADA: 1♂, 6.vi.1955, Alberta, Orion Alta. [49°28’N 110°50’W], leg. J. R. Vockeroth; 1♂, 3.ix.1991, British Columbia, 32 km N Nakusp, leg. A. Borkent; 2♂, 8.vii.1992, British Columbia, 50 km E Bella Coole, leg. A. Borkent; 1♂, 26.vi.1960, British Columbia, Aiyansh, 500’, leg. R. Nass; 1♂, 30.i.1960, British Columbia, Kleanza Cr., 14 mi. E Terrace, leg. C. H. Mann; 6♂, 23.v.2005, British Columbia, Mt Kobaud [49°05.376’N 119°37.834’W], leg. Goulet & Boudreault; 1♂, 8.vii.1973, British Columbia, Point Grey, Vancouver, leg. J. R. Vockeroth; 1♂, 18.vi.1953, Ontario, Maynooth, leg. J. F. MacAlpine; 1♂, 19.vi.1953, ditto; 1♂, 7.vii.1968, Québec, Lac Phillipe [45°37’N 76°W], leg. J. R. Vockeroth; GREAT BRITAIN: 1♂, 8.viii.1969, Devon, Clennon Valley, Paignton, leg. J. R. Vockeroth; 1♂, 14.viii.1960, Devon, Paignton, leg. J. R. Vockeroth; SWEDEN: 2♂, 3.viii.1951, Abisko, Lapland, leg. J. R. Vockeroth; USA: 1♂, 17.vii.1961, Wyoming, Union Pass Road, Fremont Co., leg. J. G. Chillcott. With the key of Sabrosky (1959) Meoneura flavifacies is easily confused with the Holarctic Meoneura pappi Stuke, 2015. A key to separate these two species is included in Stuke & Bächli (2015). Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2016, Carnidae (Diptera) in the Canadian National Collection of Insects (Ottawa), with the description of five new species in Zootaxa 4084 (4), DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4084.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1052329