Phytobaenus amabilis, F. SAHLBERG, 1834

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 : 168

38. PHYTOBAENUS AMABILIS F. SAHLBERG, 1834 * Examined material: This species was recorded from only one locality: Bagrationovsk district, near the railway station “ 1312 km ”, 54°33´10´´N 20°9´30´´E, 02.VIII-23.VIII.2009 (8 exx., Fageto-Quercetum forest, pitfall trap in the fork of a living old lime-tree, 3 meter above ground level, leg. V. Alekseev) .

Comments: New species for the fauna of the Kaliningrad region. This species is known from the Baltic States from Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Latvia ( Silfverberg 2004). It has also been recorded from Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996) and the Polish part of the Bialowieża primeval forest (Kubisz, Tsinkevich 2001). For the territory of the former East Prussia, it has been reported from the Masurian province in northern Poland ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). The species is associated with old deciduous trees such as lime, birch, oak ( Nikitsky et al. 1996). Possibly, the rarity of this species in collections can be explained by its inhabiting the arboreal layer and living mainly in the tree canopy, where sampling with the use of standard entomological methods is less effective.