Bruchidius marginalis, (FABRICIUS, 1777)

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 : 223-224

60. BRUCHIDIUS MARGINALIS (FABRICIUS, 1777) *

Examined material: Recorded once: Zelenogradsk district, 3 km N Grachevka, 54°91´17´´N 20°13´33.7´´E, 6.VI.2010 (2 exx, sweeping at the edge of the mixed forest, leg. V. Alekseev) .

Comments: In accordance with the data from the catalogue of Silfverberg (2004), this rare and locally distributed species has been recorded from Latvia and Lithuania only. For the territory of the former Eastern Prussia it has been recorded on Oxytropis pilosa from the territory of the present-day northern Poland ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). In Lithuania it was sampled on the blossoms of Anthemis tinctoria (Šablevičius 2004) but in Latvia on Astragalus glycyphyllos ( Bukejs 2010) . The imago is anthophagous and occurs on different flowers. The larvae develop in seeds of Astragalus glycyphyllos in Latvia, and this fact should be rightful for the Kaliningrad region too, because absence of montanous distributed Oxytropis in our flora.

RHYNCHITIDAE GISTEL, 1848