MONOTOMIDAE LAPORTE DE CASTELNAU, 1840

Alekseev, Vitaly I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2010, Contributions to the knowledge of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Kaliningrad region. 1., Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (2), pp. 157-176 : 165

MONOTOMIDAE LAPORTE DE CASTELNAU, 1840 24. MONOTOMA CONICICOLLIS AUBÉ, 1837 Examined material: Recorded only once: 1 km W Svetlogorsk, 54°56´26.2´´N 20°8´27.1´´E, 17.V-02.VI.2009 (1 ex., Carpino-Piceetum forest, pitfall trap in an anthill of Formica rufa , leg. V.Alekseev). Comments: This species is wide distributed across the whole Baltic and Fennoscandian region ( Silfverberg 2004), and it has also been recorded from Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996). On the territory of the northern part of the former East Prussia ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979), it has been reported from Cranz [Zelenogradsk], the northern part of the Sambian peninsula, Neuhäuser [Mechnikov], Königsberg [Kaliningrad], Zehlau [the bog Zehlau, 3-8 km N of the village Grushevka in Pravdinsk district], Rominten [Krasnoles’e] and Szillen [Zhilino in Nemansk district]. The species is myrmicophilous and inhabits the nests of Formica uralensis and F. rufa .