Eight new and little-known leaf-beetles species (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae & Chrysomelidae) for the Kaliningrad region
Author
Bukejs, Andris
Author
Alekseev, Vitaly I.
text
Baltic Journal of Coleopterology
2009
9
1
45
50
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.13204576
1407-8619
13204576
Prasocuris junci
(Brahm, 1790)
Material
:
On
the territory of the former
East Prussia
it was registered in
Königsberg
[
Kaliningrad
],
Rauschen
[Svetlogorsk] and in
Rominten
[Krasnolesye] (
Bercio & Folwaczny 1979
).
In
research period it was recorded twice:
Zelenogradsky district
,
Pereslavskoe
environs,
54°49´32.6´´N
20°17´16.4´´E
,
16.VI.2001
(3 exx, bank of a rivulet, leg.
V
.
Alekseev
) and
Svetlogorsk
environs,
54°56´26.2´´N
20°8´27.1´´E
,
06.VI.2004
(
1 ex.
, the Baltic Sea shore, leg.
V
. Alekseev)
.
Comment: the species feeds on
Veronica beccabunga
and distributed in Europe, north Africa, Caucasus,
Asia Minor
. In the Baltic States and Fennoscandia it is known from
Denmark
,
Latvia
and
Sweden
(
Silfverberg 2004
) and also from
Belarus
(
Lopatin, Nesterova 2005
).
ALTICINAE
NEWMAN
, 1834
Phyllotreta dilatata
Thomson, 1866
*
Material
:
At
present the species is known only from one locality in the
Kaliningrad region
:
Zelenogradsk
environs,
54°57´41.6´´N
20°30´16´´E
,
09.V.1998
(
1 ex.
, the Baltic Sea shore, leg.
V
. Alekseev)
.
Comment: The species feeds on
Cruciferae
and is distributed in western and central Europe, central Siberia (the Krasnoyarsk district). In the Baltic States and Fennoscandia it is known from
Latvia
(
Bukejs 2008b
),
Denmark
and
Sweden
(
Silfverberg 2004
) and also from
Belarus
(
Lopatin, Nesterova 2005
).