Lebia cruxminor, (LINNAEUS, 1758)

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 : 210

1. LEBIA CRUXMINOR (LINNAEUS, 1758)

Examined material: Recorded once: the Curonian Spit, Rybachy environs, 55°15´35´´N 20°83´59.9´´E, 13.VII.2010 (1 ex., bank of Chayka Lake , sweeping on the grasses and buches, leg. V. Alekseev, A. V. Alekseeva & U.Eith) .

Comments: This species is widely distributed across the whole Baltic and Fennoscandian region and is known from all territories ( Silfverberg 2004). It has also been recorded from Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996). The faunal information on this beetle on the territory of the northern part of the former East Prussia and the Kaliningrad region was given earlier (Alekseev 2008). The larva is undescribed, the species is the warm-requiring predar on Chrysolina and Galeruca species ( Persohn 2004). This is the second record from the region of this scarce carabid species.