Contributions to the knowledge of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Kaliningrad region. 1. Author Alekseev, Vitaly I. Author Bukejs, Andris text Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 2010 10 2 157 176 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.13204446 1407-8619 13204446 26. MONOTOMA BREVICOLLIS AUBÉ , 1837 Examined material: Recorded once using a light-trap on the Curonian Spit: 23 km NNE Zelenogradsk, 55°5´21.6´´N 20°43´41.7´´E , 23.VII.2009 ( 1 ex. , pine forest, leg. A. P. Shapoval). Comments: This species is sporadically distributed in the whole Baltic and Fennoscandian region and is known from all territories except Karelia ( Silfverberg 2004 ). It has also been recorded from Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996 ). On the territory of the former East Prussia ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979 ), it has only been reported from Königsberg [Kaliningrad]. The species inhabits rotting vegetable matter and is a detritus feeder.