The localities of Arctic Diptera (Insecta) collected by the Russian Kara Expedition of 1909

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.

Keywords:

• Russia
• Kara Expedition 1909
• Diptera
• localities; type-localities

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Federal Fundamental Scientific Research Programme for 2013–2020 under Grant no. VI.51.1.7.