Clytra quadripunctata, (LINNAEUS, 1758)

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 : 169

42. CLYTRA QUADRIPUNCTATA (LINNAEUS, 1758) Examined material: Recorded once in the year 2009: 1 km W Svetlogorsk, 54°56´26.2´´N 20°8´27.1´´E, 17.V. 2009 (6 exx, Carpino-Piceetum forest, pitfall trap in an ant hill of Formica rufa , leg. V. Alekseev) .

Comments: This species is widely distributed in the whole Baltic and Fennoscandian region and has been reported from all territories ( Silfverberg 2004). It has also been recorded from Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996). For the territory of the former East Prussia, the precise localities of records have not been reported, and the species has been reported as “everywhere not seldom” ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). In the authors’ opinion, this species is not a “great rarity” in the present-day Kaliningrad region, but is currently confirmed only from the single above-mentioned locality. The larva is myrmecophilous of Formica species, and the imago occurs and feeds on flowers and foliage.