Contributions to the knowledge of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Kaliningrad region. 1. Alekseev, Vitaly I. Bukejs, Andris Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 2010 10 2 157 176 63D88 [377,493,829,853] Insecta Monotomidae Monotoma Animalia Coleoptera 8 165 Arthropoda genus   Examined material:Recorded once from a light-trap on the Curonian Spit: 23 kmNNE Zelenogradsk, 55°5´21.6´´N 20°43´41.7´´E, 15.VII.2009( 1 ex., pine forest, leg. A. P. Shapoval). Comments:This species is widely but sporadically distributed in the whole Baltic and Fennoscandian region ( Silfverberg 2004), and it has also been recorded from Belarus( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996). The species is considered to be rare in Lithuania( Ferenca et al. 2006). On the territory of the northern part of the former East Prussia, it has been recorded from Cranz [Zelenogradsk], in the northern part of the Sambian peninsula, Fischhausen [Primorsk] and Insterburg [Chernyakhovsk] ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). The species inhabits rotting vegetable matter and is a detritus feeder.