Potamophilus acuminatus (Fabricius, 1792)

Alekseev, Vitalii I., Drotikova, Anna M., Rozhina, Viktoria I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2021, Addenda To The Knowledge Of Beetles (Insecta: Сoleoptera) Of Kaliningrad Region (Western Russia): New Faunistic Records, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 21 (1), pp. 13-31 : 18

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10962905
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scientific name	Potamophilus acuminatus (Fabricius, 1792)
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*6. Potamophilus acuminatus (Fabricius, 1792) View in CoL

Local references: Not reported earlier.

Material: Cherniakhovsk district , 2 km S Timofeevka, 54.63°N, 21.90°E, 01.07.2021, 1 ex., riverbank of Angrapa ( Fig. 4 View Figs 3–10 ) GoogleMaps .

Comments: First report of the species for Kaliningrad region and Baltic countries fauna. It is known in northern Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996; Moroz 2018) and Poland ( Buczyński et al. 2011). Known aspects of bionomy, distribution and proposal for including of Potamophilus acuminatus to the Red List of IUCN in VU category (vulnerable species) is discussed in Buczyński et al. (2011).

References

Alexandrovitch O. R., Lopatin I. K., Pisanenko A. D., Tsinkevitch V. A., Snitko S. M. 1996. A catalogue of Coleoptera (Insecta) of Belarus. FFR RB, Мinsk, Belarus: 103 p.

Buczynski P., Przewozny M., Zawal A., Zgierska M. 2011. On the occurrence of Potamophilus acuminatus (Fabricius, 1772) (Coleoptera: Elmidae) in Poland. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology, 11 (1): 45 - 56.

Moroz M. D. 2018. The aquatic insects of the Zapadnaya Dvina river tributaries, Belarus. Eurasian Entomological Journal, 17 (3): 201 - 211.

Figures

Figs 3–10. The photographs of the living specimens in nature (Kaliningrad Region): 3 – Stenolophus teutonus; 4 – Potamophilus acuminatus; 5 – Hylis olexai; 6 – Denticollis rubens; 7 – Melandrya barbata; 8 – Mycetophagus ater; 9 – Mordellaria aurofasciata; 10 – Boros schneideri.