The fire-adapted flatbug Aradus laeviusculus Reuter (Heteroptera, Aradidae) rediscovered in Finland (North Karelia, Koli National Park)

We report the finding of the flatbug Aradus laeviusculus Reuter, 1875 in the Koli National Park (North Karelia, Finland). One mature female was caught by using a window trap during the period 22.VII.-24.VIII.1996 in a slash-and burning plot that had been burned earlier in summer 1996. A. laeviusculu...

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Published in:Entomologica Fennica
Main Authors: Lappalainen, Harri, Simola, Heikki
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: This journal is published jointly by the Entomological Society of Finland, the Lepidopterological Society of Finland, the Societas Entomologica Helsingforsiensis and the Entomological Club of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Turku. 1998
Subjects:
karelia*
Online Access:https://journal.fi/entomolfennica/article/view/83959
https://doi.org/10.33338/ef.83959
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Summary:We report the finding of the flatbug Aradus laeviusculus Reuter, 1875 in the Koli National Park (North Karelia, Finland). One mature female was caught by using a window trap during the period 22.VII.-24.VIII.1996 in a slash-and burning plot that had been burned earlier in summer 1996. A. laeviusculus has been listed as extinct in Finland, the last previous record being from the year 1949 (Lammi, South Finland).

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