Affiliation:
1. Institute of Biological Problems of the North
2. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
3. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Abstract
Two new localities for Smittia brevipennis from the Franz-Josef Land Archipelago and the Vize Island, Russian Arctic, are reported. A description of larvae and female imago is given. Zero rate of mutations in the gene COI found in specimens from Canada, Alaska, Svalbard, Franz-Josef Land and Vize Island is unique for the Chironomids inhabiting such extensive range and indicates a relatively recent and rapid colonization of the high-Arctic areas by Smittia brevipennis. Possible routes and means of historical dispersal across the circumpolar range of this unusual brachypterous parthenogenetic orthoclad are discussed.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC
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