K. Heliövaara, R. Väisänen & I. Mannerkoski 1990: Melanophila formaneki (Jakobson) (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) New to Finland. - Entomologica Fennica 1: 221-225.
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 area 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 larva is described.