Elodes

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 : 212

10. ELODES MINUTA (LINNAEUS, 1767)

Examined material: The species was collected in 2009 only: Bagrationovsk district , Bogdanovka environs, 54°17´59´´N 20°01´21´´E, 24.V.2009 (3 exx., the bank of a small stream, sweeping on Urtica dioica and other herbaceous vegetation, leg. V.Alekseev), 16.VI.2009 (1 ex., ibidem, leg. V. Alekseev); Bagrationovsk district, near the railway station “ 1312 km ”, 54°58´95´´N 20°22´24.7´´E, 8.VI.2009 (1 ex., the humid Alnetum urticosum forest, at the bank of a rivulet, leg. V. Alekseev) .

Comments: This species is widely distributed across the whole Baltic and Fennoscandian region and has been reported from all territories ( Silfverberg 2004) and also from Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996). On the territory of the northern part of the former East Prussia, it was known from Trempen [Novostroevo in Nesterov district] and Königsberg [Kaliningrad] ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). The species is restricted to the current waterbodies there the aquatic larvae develop.

BUPRESTIDAE LEACH, 1815