Gonarcticus arcticus Becker 1907
Creators
Description
Gonarcticus arcticus (Becker, 1907)
Figs 34–37, 39–43.
arctica Becker, 1907: 412 (Pselaphephila). Type-locality: East Greenland.
Material examined. Altay: Ridge Kurayskiy, 2500–2700 m (50.33N 87.75E), 3.VII.2008, A. Barkalov (1 ♀, ZMUM); Chukotka: Vrangel I. (71.29N 179.63E), 13.VII.2008, O. Chruleva (1 ♂, ZMUM).
Additional material examined. CANADA: Cambrige Bay, N.W.T., 1 and 22.VII.1950, G.K. Sweatman (1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, ZMH; all determined by J.R. Vockeroth as G. arcticus).
Diagnostic description. Body-length 5–6 mm. Head. Frontal vitta blackish in upper half and yellow in lower half. Antenna black. Palpus darkened apically. Katepisternum with 2 strong black setae, anterior katepisternal seta absent. Legs yellow, but all coxae blackish, fore femur posterodorsally and tarsi darkened. Mid femur with a row of posteroventral setae. Hind tibia with posteroventral apical seta. Vein R1 bare on apical third of dorsal surface. Abdomen black. Sternites 4 and 5 as in Figs 37, 36. Epandrium, cerci and surstyli as in Figs 34, 35. Ovipositor as in Figs 39–41.
Distribution. Russia (Fig. 43): Altay, Chukotka (first record for Russia and Palaearctic).—North America (Vockeroth, 1965: 832).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scathophagidae
- Genus
- Gonarcticus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Becker
- Species
- arcticus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gonarcticus arcticus Becker, 1907 sec. Ozerov & Krivosheina, 2015
References
- Becker, T. (1907) Beschreibung von 3 neuen Dipteren aus Ost-Gronland. Meddelelser om Gronland, 29, 411 - 414.
- Vockeroth, J. R. (1965) Subfamily Scatophaginae. In: Stone, A., Sabrosky, C. W., Wirth, W. W., Foote, R. H. & Culson, J. R. (Eds.), A catalog of the Diptera of America north of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook 276, pp. 826 - 842.