Karelia_Leiopus_punctulatus

Published Friday January 23rd, 2015 at 900 × 597 in Republic of Karelia

Jevgeni Jakovlev collected a very rare beetle Leiopus puncticollis Paykill. Larvae feed subcortically in relatively thin dead branches of a dark black color caused by a fungus Encoelia fascicularis (Ascomycota). Photo: Andrei Humala