Neocrepidodera, Heikertinger, 1911

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50. NEOCREPIDODERA NIGRITULA (GYLLENHAL, 1813) Examined material: Recorded from one locality: 3 km NE Zelenogradsk, 54°56´58.8´´N 20°31´32.3´´E, on the transitional environment between the mixed humid Pinetum forest and plateua sphagnum bog, pitfall traps, 27.IV-11. V.2009 (1 ex., leg. V. Alekseev), 11.V-26. V.2009 (1 ex., leg. V. Alekseev), 25.V-13. VI.2009 (1 ex., leg. V. Alekseev), 03.VIII-31.VIII.2009 (1 ex., leg. V. Alekseev). All specimens were caught using pitfall traps only, sweep-netting of vegetation and visual searching in the habitat being unsuccessful. This leads us to suppose that this species inhabits the lowest herb layer or the litter. Comments: This is a European species and distributed in Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Belarus, Croatia, Czech, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy (north), Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, European Russia (incl. Karelia), Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden (south and mid), Switzerland, Turkey (Bosporus) and Ukraine ( Borowiec 2004, Warchałowski 2003). On the territory of the northern part of the former East Prussia, it has been reported from Königsberg [Kaliningrad], Zehlau [Pravdinsk district] and Insterburg [Chernyakhovsk] ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). The host plant of this species is unknown.