Spiriverpa albiceps

Spiriverpa albiceps (Loew) (Figs. 9, 10) Specimens examined (119). BC: Bennett; Duffey Lake; Eddontenajon Lake; French Creek, Highway 37; Good Hope Lake, Graham Island, Chown River; Graham Island, Delkatla; Graham Island, Rennell Sound; Graham Island, Skidegate; Graham Island, Skonun Point; Graham Island, Yakan Point; Kootenay Lake, Tye Creek; Masset; Nicola, Salmon River; Penticton, West Bench; Tatshenshini Lake; Tatshenshini River, Towagh Creek; Tlell; Tutshi Lake; Wellington, Nanaimo Lakes; Wellington. Wolf Creek. YT: Dezadeash River; Kluane Lake; Kluane National Park, Bullion Creek; La Biche River: Teslin; Upper Liard. DEBU, RBCM, SEM. Database and literature records (82+1). BC: Atlin; Dean River; Moresby Island; Queen Charlotte City; Salmon Arm; Summit Lake, mile 392 Alaska Highway; Tunjony Lake. YT: Burwash Flats, 17 km WNW; Carcross; Carmacks; Dempster Highway, km 140.1; Johnson’s Crossing; Kluane, Slims River Delta; Kluane Lake, mile 1054 Alaska Highway; Nahanni Range Road, km 128; Old Crow, 35 km WSW; Otter Lake; Rancheria, 7 km E; Rose Lake, South Canol Road; South Canol Road, km 217.4; Watson Lake. AK: Anchorage; Fairbanks; Kodiak Island, Kukak Bay; Seward; Unalakleet. CASC, CNCI, INHS, SEM, USNM. iNaturalist records (2). BC: Cape Scott (iNat 57752358) (Fig. 9). YT: Teslin (iNat 55078839) (Fig. 10). Conservation status. BC: S3S5, YT: S4S5 Distributional notes. Spiriverpa albiceps is common and reported from scattered localities over most of British Columbia, from Atlin and Summit Lake in the north to Wellington, Penticton, and Kootenay Lake in the south. In the Yukon, locations range from the Dempster Highway in the north to Kluane Lake and Watson Lake in the south; the species is probably distributed over most of territory. It lives over much of Alaska. Ecoprovinces and other designations. BC: Coast and Mountains, Georgia Depression, Southern Interior, Southern Interior Mountains, Northern Boreal Mountains. YT: Boreal Cordillera, Taiga Cordillera, Taiga Plains. AK: Beringia Boreal, Coast Mountains Boreal, Hypermaritime Forests, Subarctic Tundra. Range. Boreal. Western Alaska through the Yukon, east to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, south to Illinois and New Mexico (Webb et al. 2013). Biological notes. Flight period: 4 June–20 August. Recorded habitats include sea beach and lakeshore dunes (Fig. 15), river gravel bars and beaches, a spring-fed calcareous fen and a wet herbaceous meadow, a south-facing gravel slope, a gravel pit, and a garden adjacent to grassland.