Arctopiophila arctica

• Main Authors: Sabrina Rochefort, Terry A. Wheeler
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Piophilidae; Arctopiophila; Arctopiophila arctica; Banks Island; Cambridge Bay; Iqaluit; Kugluktuk; Lake Hazen; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Subarctic; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6112678; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/5C7B87F6FFA4FFF3FFD8AFCEFD1A78D4

Arctopiophila arctica (Holmgren) NBP/NIS material examined. 40 ♂, 31 ♀ from the following sites: Northwest Territories: Banks Island; Nunavut: Cambridge Bay, Iqaluit, Kugluktuk, Lake Hazen; Yukon Territory: North Fork Pass (vi–viii.1952; vi–ix.1948; vii.2011) (CNC, LEM). Comments. Arctopiophila arctica has been recorded from the high arctic and subarctic in both the Nearctic (Steyskal 1965; McAlpine 1977) and Palaearctic regions (Ozerov 2004b). We recorded it at all four high arctic sites, and two subarctic sites: North Fork Pass and Kugluktuk. Published as part of Sabrina Rochefort & Terry A. Wheeler, 2015, Diversity of Piophilidae (Diptera) in northern Canada and description of a new Holarctic species of Parapiophila McAlpine, pp. 229-240 in Zootaxa 3925 on page 231, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3925.2.5