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Parapiophila penicillata

Description

Parapiophila penicillata (Steyskal)

NBP/NIS material examined. 6 ♂, 23 ♀ from the following sites: Manitoba: Churchill; Newfoundland and Labrador: Goose Bay; Northwest Territories: Norman Wells; Ontario: Moosonee; Yukon Territory: North Fork Pass (vi–viii.1952) (CNC).

Comments. Parapiophila penicillata has a widespread distribution from Alaska to Labrador in North America (Steyskal 1964; McAlpine 1977).

Notes

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 236, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.2.5

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Biodiversity

Family
Piophilidae
Genus
Parapiophila
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
penicillata
Taxon rank
species