Platydema violaceum, (FABRICIUS, 1790)

Alekseev, Vitaly I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2010, Contributions to the knowledge of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Kaliningrad region. 1., Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (2), pp. 157-176 : 167-168

36. PLATYDEMA VIOLACEUM (FABRICIUS, 1790) Examined material: Recorded from four localities in the western part of the region: 2 km N Kaliningrad, 54°46´41.2´´N 20°27´17.3´´E, 08.III.2008 (7 exx, mixed forest, under the bark of standing dead oaks with diameter 0.3-0.4 m, leg. A. Alekseeva & V. Alekseev); Gur’evsk district, Otvazhnoe environs, 54°36´16´´N 20°32´50.7´´E, 29.III.2008 (5 exx, mixed forest, under the bark of standing dead oaks with diameter 0.3-0.4 m, leg. A. Alekseeva & V. Alekseev); N suburb of Kaliningrad, 54°46´21.3´´N 20°28´25.5´´E, 31.III.2009 (2 exx, broadleaved forest, under the bark of an oak stump, leg. A. Alekseeva & V. Alekseev); Bagrationovsk district, near the railway station “ 1312 km ”, 54°33´10´´N 20°9´30´´E, 12.IV.2009 (4 exx, Fageto-Quercetum forest , under the bark of a standing dead oak, leg. V. Alekseev), 19.V.2009 (1 ex., Fageto-Quercetum forest , under the bark of a standing dried out beech, leg. V. Alekseev) .

Comments: This species is widely distributed across the whole Baltic and Fennoscandian region and has been reported from all territories except Norway ( Silfverberg 2004). It has also been recorded from West Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996) and from the Bialowieża primeval forest (Kubisz, Tsinkevich 2001). On the territory of the northern part of the former East Prussia, it has been reported from Königsberg [Kaliningrad] and Insterburg [Chernyakhovsk] ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). In this region, this imago-wintering species is associated with dead oaks and (occasionally) beeches.

SALPINGIDAE LEACH, 1815