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Elodes pseudominuta (Coleoptera:
Scirtidae) in the Faroe Islands
Elodes pseudominuta (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) í Føroyum
Janus Hansen? and Garth N. Foster2
1 Faroese Museum of Natural History, FO-IOO Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. Email: janush@ngs.fo
2 The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust, 3 Eglinton Terrace, Ayr KA7 1JJ, Scotland, UK.
Email: latissimus@btinternet.com
Úrtak
Klukkan ílodes pseudominuta er skrásett fyri fyrstu
ferð í Føroyum. Helst er tað so, at skrásetingar í Føroy-
um av klukkuni E/odes minuta av røttum áttu at verið
E. pseudominuta
Abstract
The Marsh Beetle Elodes pseudominuta, has been
recorded for the first time in the Faroes. It is likely that
previous records of Elodes minuta from the Faroes have
been based on £. pseudominuta.
Elodes minuta
Foster and Hansen reviewed wetland
Coleoptera from the Faroes in 2004 (Foster
and Hansen, 2004). It was noted that Elodes
minuta (Linnaeus, 1767) had been noted
several timesfrom the Faroes: Hansen (1881)
noted Helodes minuta, mainly collected in
1863-1868 by Dr A. Bergh. Mjóberg (1917)
recorded four specimens from Trongisvágur,
Suðuroy, in 1915, and one individual in Hest-
ur in 1902. West (1930) noted occurrence in
streams on Suðuroy and Streymoy, possibly
mainly as larvae, though this is not entirely
clear.
Elodes pseudominuta
An Elodes larva was found in an exposed
grassy ditch in Klovin, Vágar on 7 June 2004,
but being a larva it could not be identified,
and rearing it to the adult stage failed. An
adult Elodes was found in a spring at Dysjar,
Vágar in 2004; unfortunately it was not iden-
tifiable to species with certainty, being fe-
male. An adult male Elodes was found at
Middalur, Viðoy on 25 June 2008 by JH, and
it was identified by GNF using photographs
of the genitalia as Elodes pseudominuta
Klausnitzer, 1917. Another adult male of
pseudominuta was recorded from Kaldbaks-
fjørður, Streymoy on 30 June 2009. Klaus-
nitzer (2009) records E. pseudominuta from
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, the Czech Repub-
lic, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Hun-
gary, Italy, Latvia, Luxemburg, the Nether-
lands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain,
Switzerland, and Turkey. It is also known
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