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