title: Contributions to the taxonomy and faunistics of some arctic species of Spilogona Schnabl (Diptera: Muscidae).
abstract: New synonymies in the genus Spilogona Schnabl, 1911 are proposed: S. novaesibiriae (Frey, 1915) = S. obsoleta (Malloch, 1920), syn. nov.; S. trianguligera (Zetterstedt, 1838) = S. setinervis (Huckett, 1932), syn. nov. Spilogona trianguligera and S. tendipes (Malloch, 1920) are newly recorded from Greenland, and S. trianguligera also from W Siberia. The female of S. vikhrevi Sorokina, 2010 is described and the species in newly recorded from Wrangel Island (Far East Russia).
authors.affiliation: Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia.; Email: sorokinavs@mail.ru.
authors.forename: Vera S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Sorokina
authors.affiliation: Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.; Email: vmichelsen@snm.ku.dk.
authors.forename: Verner
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Michelsen
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D000818:Animals; D017753:Ecosystem; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009117:Muscidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*