Hallomenus axillaris, (ILLIGER, 1807)

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 : 216

24. HALLOMENUS AXILLARIS (ILLIGER, 1807)

Examined material: Recorded twice: the Curonian Spit, 23 km NNE of Zelenogradsk, 55°9´91´´N 20°74´54.9´´E, 29. VI.2010 (1 ex., light trap in the mixed forest with Populus tremula , Alnus glutinosa , Betula sp. and Pinus sylvestris , leg. A. P. Shapoval); Zelenogradsk district, Otradnoe environs, 54°91´72´´N 20°6´76´´E, 1.VII.2010 (2 exx, inside of Laetiporus sulphureus sporophore on the bottom part of the old living oak, leg. V.Alekseev).

Comments: According to the catalogue of Silfverberg (2004), this rare species has been recorded from all Fennoscandian and Baltic territories except Lithuania. Also it is mentioned for Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996) and recently was found in Lithuania ( Ivinskis et al. 2009). On the territory of the northern part of the former East Prussia, it has been reported from Königsberg [Kaliningrad] ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). In the Moscow region ( Russia) the beetle develops mostly in the associated with spruce fungus Pycnoporellus fulgens , more seldom with Laetiporus or Toromyces ( Nikitsky et al. 1996).

OEDEMERIDAE LATREILLE, 1810