LYCIDAE LAPORTE DE CASTELNAU, 1836

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 : 161-162

LYCIDAE LAPORTE DE CASTELNAU, 1836 11. PLATYCIS COSNARDI (CHEVROLAT, 1829)* 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., Piceetum compositum forest (with Carpinus , Quercus ), pitfall trap in the bottom hollow of an old Picea abies with diameter 0.8 m, leg. V. Alekseev).

Comments: New (confirmed) species for the fauna of the Kaliningrad region. According to the catalogue of Silfverberg (2004), this very sporadically distributed species has been recorded from Sweden and Denmark only. It has also been recorded from Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996), from the Polish part of the Bialowieża primeval forest (Sućko 2001) and recently the species was discovered in Latvia ( Barševskis et al. 2008). In the former East Prussia, it has been reported from Warnicken [Lesnoe in Zelenogradsk district] on an old lime-tree only once, though this record has subsequently been called into question, and the species was listed with the note “false determination” and thus excluded from the regional fauna ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). Our finding from the same forest confirms the presence of this species in the fauna of the Kaliningrad region. The beetle develops in dead wood that is being decayed by white-rot fungi.

CANTHARIDAE IMHOFF, 1856