Attagenus schaeferi, (HERBST, 1792)

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 : 162

14. ATTAGENUS SCHAEFERI (HERBST, 1792) Examined material: Recorded from two localities: Zelenogradsk district, Ryabinovką environs, 54°49´23.3´´N 20°28´36.8´´E, 17.VI.2001 (1 ex., margin of mixed forest, leg. V. Alekseev); the Curonian Spit, 23 km NNE Zelenogradsk, 55°5´21.6´´N 20°43´41.7´´E, 29.IV.2009 (1 ex., dry pine forest, light-trap, leg. A. P. Shapoval) .

Comments: This species is distributed in the eastern Baltic region and has been reported from Finland, Latvia, Lithuania ( Silfverberg 2004), Poland and Belarus ( Tsinkevich et al. 2005). On the territory of the northern part of the former East Prussia, it has been reported from the northern part of the Sambian peninsula, Königsberg [Kaliningrad] and Insterburg [Chernyakhovsk] ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). The species is silvicol, and its larva develop in birds nests or, more seldomly, under the dry bark of trees ( Nikitsky et al. 1996).

ANOBIIDAE FLEMING, 1821