Plant-feeding dipterans (Diptera, Chloropidae, Agromyzidae) from Wrangel Island (the Chukchi Sea)
- 1 October 2011
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in Entomological Review
- Vol. 91 (7), 849-854
- https://doi.org/10.1134/s0013873811070062
Abstract
Flies of the family Chloropidae were found in the arctic tundra for the first time. Oscinella frit L. was collected in several areas of the mountainous part of Wrangel Island, occurring mainly in the ground layer. Among three species of Agromyzidae, Napomyza mimula Spencer was the most numerous; it was found both in the mountains and on the coastal plain. Two other species, Phytomyza cineracea Hendel and Chromatomyia sp., were rare. The only biotope where all the four species were collected simultaneously was a zoogenic forb-grass meadow patch which developed around the arctic fox burrow.Keywords
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