Details for Dactylolabis (Dactylolabis) rhicnoptiloides

Name: Dactylolabis (Dactylolabis) rhicnoptiloides (Alexander, 1919) Publication: Rep. Can. Arctic Exped., 1913-18, 3 (C: Diptera): 6 (as Limnophila) Status: Recognized taxon. Classification: Family Limoniidae Subfamily Dactylolabinae Descriptive note: Short description in Alexander, 1943k (reprint: 1966g). Type-material: Cooper, 1991. Keys: Oosterbroek et al., 2007 (Limoniidae Greenland) wing Distribution: Canada, USA (Alaska to Ellesmere Is, Que and Nfld); Greenland. Note: see the manual for abbreviations: Canada and USA. Region(s): Nearctic General note: Added: Ellesmere Is (Alexander, 1924v; Oliver, 1963), Que (Alexander, 1956g). For distribution in relation to arctic ecosystems see Brodo, 1990. Map: Oosterbroek et al., 2007 (Greenland) Biology: Brodo, 1990 (arctic ecosystems). Figure references: Wing: Alexander, 1919g (orig descr); Oosterbroek et al., 2007 Citations on biology (mainly from 2000 onward): Canada Biology. Brodo, 2000: 168 (larvae are probably detritus feeders; see also biology account under Greenland: P. Oosterbroek et al., 2007). Greenland Habitat. Oosterbroek et al., 2007: 26-27 (in the Canadian arctic, the species is found from the boreal forest tundra as far north as the high arctic (Brodo, 1990); on high arctic Devon Is, Y. Chernov found the species in 1991 at a variety of habitats: plateau near slopes, polar desert, coastal sea lowland with dry crushed stone patches, stony tundra, wet lowland tundra with dry patches (Lantsov, unpublished); on Ellesmere Is the larvae have been found under Dryas clumps (Brodo, 2000) and larvae were also collected in pitfal traps and in the mud and silt beside water bodies, in ice-wedge depressions between tundra hummocks, and by clumps of Carex (Brodo, unpublished)). on characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward): Greenland Key. Oosterbroek et al., 2007: 6-11 (key, variability, figs). on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward): Canada Distribution. Brodo, 2000: 168 (loc(s) Ellesmere Is). Greenland First record. Oosterbroek et al., 2007: 5, 8-9, 13, 26-27 (variability, review records Greenland, distr, map). on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward): Greenland Oosterbroek et al., 2007: month(s): 7-8.