Marmaropus besseri, GYLLENHAL, 1837

Alekseev, Vitaly I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2011, Contributions to the knowledge of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Kaliningrad region. 2, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 11 (2), pp. 209-231 : 225

66. MARMAROPUS BESSERI GYLLENHAL, 1837

Examined material: Recorded twice: Bagrationovsk district , railway station Znamenka-Novaya, 54°51’36'’N, 20°00’61'’E, 20.VI.1999 (1 ex., sweeping on dry meadow, leg. V. Alekseev); Zelenogradsk district, 3 km SW of Primorsk, 54°72´05.5´´N 19°95´25´´E, 30.V.2010 (1 ex., sweeping on dry meadow, leg. V. Alekseev) .

Comments: According to the catalogue of Silfverberg (2004), this species has not been recorded from the Baltic and Fennoscandian territories, but recently it was registered in Lithuania ( Ferenca et al. 2002) and Latvia ( Telnov et al. 2006). The species is known also from Poland ( Wanat & Mokrzycki 2005) and Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996). On the territory of the former East Prussia, this species has been reported from Juditten [western suburb of the Kaliningrad] ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). This associated with Rumex acetosa weevil occurs in the Kaliningrad region and in Lithuania at the north-eastern border of its distribution range.