Scolytus mali, (BECHSTEIN ET SCHARFENBERG, 1805)

Alekseev, Vitaly I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2011, Contributions to the knowledge of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Kaliningrad region. 2, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 11 (2), pp. 209-231 : 226

70. SCOLYTUS MALI (BECHSTEIN ET SCHARFENBERG, 1805) *

Material: Recorded once: the northern suburb of Kaliningrad, 54°75´12´´N 20°55´35´´E, 18.05.2008 (3 exx, under the bark of dead branch of the apple tree in the abandoned garden, leg. V.Alekseev & A. V. Alekseeva) .

Comments: The species is widely distributed in the Baltic region and is reported from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ( Silfverberg 2004), Poland ( Wanat & Mokrzycki 2005) and also from Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996). On the territory of the former Eastern Prussia it has not been reported from the territory of the present-day Kaliningrad region ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). The species feeds under the bark of the Prunus , Malus , Persica , more rare also on Ulmus laevis and U. minor ( Izhevsky et al. 2005) . In the region this bark beetle occurs very locally in the human-made landscapes.