Choragus sheppardi, KIRBY, 1819

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 : 172

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scientific name	Choragus sheppardi
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57. CHORAGUS SHEPPARDI KIRBY, 1819 View in CoL Examined material: Recorded once: Zelenogradsk district, Otradnoe environs, 54°56´6.5´´N, 20°6´29.4´´E, 30.VI.2009 (1 ex., on effluent sap of an old oak at the margin of a mixed forest, leg. V. Alekseev) GoogleMaps .

Comments: According to the catalogue of Silfverberg (2004), this species has been recorded from Finland, Karelia, Sweden and Denmark. On the territory of the former East Prussia ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979), it has been reported from Bludau [Kostrovo] and Blaustein [vicinity of the Kaliningrad]. The larva is associated with flask fungi (Pyrenomycetes) and decaying branches of various deciduous tree species ( Nikitsky et al. 1996).

References

Bercio H., Folwaczny B. 1979. The check-list of the beetles of Prussia. Verlag Parzeller & Co, Fulda: 1 - 369. (in German).

Nikitsky N. B., Osipov I. N., Chemeris M. V., Semenov V. B., Gusakov A. A. 1996. The beetles of the Prioksko-Terrasny biosphere reserve - xylobiontes, mycetobiontes, and Scarabaeidae (with review of the Moscow region fauna of the groups). Arch. Zool. Mus. Moscow Univ., 36: 1 - 197. (in Russian).

Silfverberg H. 2004. Enumeratio nova Coleopterorum Fennoscandiae, Daniae et Baltiae. Sahlbergia, 9: 1 - 111.