Cryptocephalus elegantulus Gravenhorst, 1807

Bukejs, Andris, 2010, Some Leaf-Beetles Species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Mistakenly Reported For The Latvian Fauna, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 10 (1), pp. 71-75 : 2

Cryptocephalus elegantulus Gravenhorst, 1807

References: Pūtele 1974; Telnov et al. 1997; Telnov 2004; Valainis 2007; Bukejs et al. 2007; Bukejs 2008a.

Material in revised collection: Single report of this species “Mežciems, 13.08.1972 (1 ex., leg. V.Pūtele)” ( Pūtele 1974) was misidentified and relate to C. fulvus Goeze, 1777 .

Host plants: Artemisia ( Lopatin, Nesterova 2005) . General distribution: Europe (excl. N), Caucasus, south part of Siberia, Kazakhstan, Central Asia (Kyrghyzia), Mongolia, Russian Far East, China, Korean Peninsula.

Note: Faunal data of this species in Latvia are absent, therefore it is excluded from the list of Latvian Coleoptera . The nearest known locality of this species is in Poland ( Warchałowski 1991; A. Warchałowski pers. comm.) and southern Belarus ( Lopatin, Nesterova 2005).