Cryptocephalus coryli (Linnaeus, 1758)

Bukejs, Andris & Alekseev, Vitaly I., 2009, Eight new and little-known leaf-beetles species (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae & Chrysomelidae) for the Kaliningrad region, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 9 (1), pp. 45-50 : 48-49

Cryptocephalus coryli (Linnaeus, 1758)

Material: On the territory of the former East Prussia it was registered in Königsberg [Kaliningrad] and in Rominten [Krasnolesye] ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979), after 1945 the species was found twice: 4 km NNE Zelenogradsk, on the Curonian Spit, 54°58´34.4´´N 20°31´35.8´´E, 04. VI.2007 (3 exx, on young Betula pendula , leg. V. Alekseev) and in Nesterovsky district, 3 km N Krasnolesye, 54°24´8.9´´N 22°24´19.8´´E, 08. VI.2008 (1ex., on young Quercus robur , leg. V. Alekseev & A. Pavlova).

Comment: The species feeds on Coryllus, Quercus , Betula . It is distributed in Europe, Siberia, Kazakhstan and Far East of Russia.

CHRYSOMELINAE LATREILLE, 1802

Colaphus sophiae (Schaller, 1783)

Material: On the territory of the former East Prussia it was registered in Königsberg [Kaliningrad], Isterburg [Chernyakhovsk], Frische Nehrung [the Baltic Spit]. In research period it was recorded only from one locality on the Baltic Sea shore near Svetlogorsk , 54°56´26.2´´N 20°8´27.1´´E, 01.VI.1994 (1 ex., leg. V. Alekseev) and 06.VI.2004 (2 exx, leg. V. Alekseev) .

Comment: the species feeds on Brassica, Sinapis, Raphanus, Sisymbrium and is distributed in central and south-eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. According to the catalogue of Silfverberg (2004) it is mentioned for Denmark, Latvia and Lithuania; the species is known also from Belarus ( Lopatin, Nesterova 2005).