The localities of Arctic Diptera (Insecta) collected by the Russian Kara Expedition of 1909 |
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Authors: | Vera S. Sorokina Adrian C. Pont |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russiasorokinavs@mail.ru;3. Hope Department of Entomology, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, UK |
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Abstract: | One of the most important journeys of exploration to Arctic Russia was the so-called 1909 Kara Expedition, to the polar area north of the Ural Mountains. Among the scientific papers resulting from this expedition, that on the Diptera gives only the vaguest locality data, such as ‘Kara tundra’ or ‘polar Urals’, with a date. From the separately published Russian expedition narrative, we present a table giving the day-by-day stops of the expedition, so far as possible with named localities and coordinates. As a result, localities, and especially type-localities of new species, can be precisely located for the Diptera and for other taxonomic groups. |
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Keywords: | Russia Kara Expedition 1909 Diptera localities type-localities |
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