Rhagium sycophanta (Schranck, 1781)

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 : 23

38. Rhagium sycophanta (Schranck, 1781)

Local references: Bercio & Folwaczny 1979; Tamutis & Alekseev 2020 (listed without new data).

Material: Baltiisk district , Mechnikovo environs, 54.69°N, 19.92°E, 02.06.2021, 1 ex., on old oak, Fageto-Quercetum forest; Bagrationovsk district, Medovoe environs, 54.53°N, 20.36°E, 26.06.2021, 1 ex., on old oak, roadside ( Fig. 13 ) .

Comments: It is the first actual records of this species from the territory of the present-day Kaliningrad Region since more than 75 years. The species is associated with standing dead old oaks and is probable candidate for the next issue of the Red Book of Kaliningrad Region.

Figures

Figs11–18.The photographsofthelivingspecimensinnature(KaliningradRegion):11–Pilemostoma fastuosum; 12 – Palaeocallidium coriaceum; 13 – Rhagium sycophanta; 14 – Ropalopus macropus; 15 – Cleopus pulchellus; 16 – Lixus filiformis; 17 – Otiorrhynchus armadillo, female (left box – aedeagus from collected specimen of 2020 year); 18 – Rhopalapion longirostre.