Platycerus caprea, (DeGeer, 1774)

Alekseev, Vitalii I., 2018, Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) Of The Kaliningrad Region (Russia): The Commented Actual Checklist, Assessment Of Rarity And Notes To Regional Protection, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 18 (2), pp. 111-152 : 119-120

3. P. caprea (DeGeer, 1774)

Voucher specimens: 10 [Cherniakhovsk, 02 May 1988;Svetlogorsk, 11June 1997;Otradnoe, 30 June 2008, 2 exx; Bogdanovka, 31 May – 16 June 2009, 2 exx; 5 km NE Cherniakhovsk, 17 May 2010; 3 km NE Zelenogradsk, 23 May 2010; 4 km NE Zelenogradsk, 23 May – 13 June 2012; 1 km E Cherniakhovsk, 30 April 2018].

Kaliningrad Region: Bagr., Chern., Zel.

Comments: The certain findings of the species in Eastern Prussia were unknown, the presence of the species in the regional fauna was expected only (Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). Widespread in Baltic States and Fennoscandia ( Silfverberg 2010). The formally first report of the species in the Kaliningrad Region .

Sporadically distributed, occasional species, known from scattered localities in various parts of the Region. Occurs in the shady and humid mixed forest stands, often on forested slopes of ravines. The species develops ( Nikitsky 2016) in the lying on the ground twigs and logs of deciduous trees ( Betula , Alnus , Salix , Fagus , Quercus ). The species is considered ( Nieto & Alexander 2010) “least concern” at the European level. According to randomly selected regional material of the genus Platycerus in the collection, the species is wider distributed and more often encountered than P. caraboides .