Entomologica Fennica


Abstracts of Volume 4 Number 3, 1993

J. Siitonen 1993: Faunistic Records of Carabidae and Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) Caught By Pitfall Trapping in Western Finnish Lapland. - Entomologica Fennica 4: 225-231.

New faunistic records are given based on a total collection of 41 601 Coleoptera, of which 6 364 are Carabidae and 30 414 Staphylinidae. They were collected mostly by pitfall trapping in different forest and mire habitats in western Finnish Lapland. A total of 52 carabid and 186 staphylinid species are reported. Of these, 6 (11 %) and 49 (26 %) species, respectively, were new for the province Lapponia kemensis occidentalis (LkW). Microdota wireni Brundin is reported as new for Finland. Notes on the occurrence and biology of the following species are given: Platynus (Agonum) mannerheimii, Harpalus nigritarsis, Philonthus lederi, Lesteva monticola, Oxypoda operta, Mocyta (Atheta) amblystegii, Lomechusa pubicollis and Myllaena hyperborea.


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