Distribution. Northeast Asia from the downstream Jana east to the Pacific coast of the Chukotka Peninsula. To the north to the Arctic coast. To the south to the middle, sometimes to the southern borders of tundra zone on the Pacific coast of north-eastern tip of the Chukotka Peninsula to the south to the 63rd parallel. Arctic and subarctic areas of North America from the west coast of Alaska east to p-ova Melville and Hudson Bay. To the north to the Arctic coast. To the south to the southern coast of Alaska oz. Athabasca, northern Manitoba, northern Ontario. Islands: Grand Lyakhovsky (presumably), St. Lawrence, Kadyak, south of Baffin Island. The nature of the host on the shores of Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and some islands in the Canadian Arctic are not clarified (Stepanyan, 1990). References. |