Spilogona sanctipauli is a species of fly from the family Muscidae first described by John Russell Malloch in 1921.[1] It has a distribution across the high arctic and is a notable and important pollinator of the mountain avens. The species has been strongly correlated to successful seed setting and may be an integral character in arctic ecosystems.[2]

Spilogona sanctipauli
Spilogona denigrata taken in 2014 by Dr. Jade Savage, at Bishop's University.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Muscidae
Genus: Spilogona
Species:
S. sanctipauli
Binomial name
Spilogona sanctipauli
(Malloch, 1921)

References

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  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ Tiusanen, Mikko; Hebert, Paul D. N.; Schmidt, Niels Martin; Roslin, Tomas (2016). "One fly to rule them all—muscid flies are the key pollinators in the Arctic". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 283 (1839). doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.1271. PMC 5046896. PMID 27683367.