Open Access<i>Melanophila formaneki</i> (Jakobson) (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) new to Finland
Author(s) -
Kari Heliövaara,
Rauno Väisänen,
Ilpo Mannerkoski
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
entomologica fennica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.173
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2489-4966
pISSN - 0785-8760
DOI - 10.33338/ef.83488
Subject(s) - buprestidae , scots pine , biology , pinus <genus> , larva , botany , horticulture , zoology
The buprestid Melanophila formaneki (Jakobson) (= Phaenops aerea Formanek) is reported for the first time from Finland. The beetles (5 adults and 32 larvae) were reared from three stems of recently dead approx. 4-m-high Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris L.). The pines had been cut in a heavily polluted industrial arca at Harjavalta, southwestern Finland, in 1989. A specimen collected in 1929 from Sakkola, on the Karelian Isthmus, was redetermined in museum material. M.formaneki is compared with M. cyanea, and the la¡va is described.