Anthaxia godeti, GORY, 1841

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 : 213

11. ANTHAXIA GODETI GORY, 1841 *

Examined material: Recorded from one locality: Krasnoznamensk district, Dolzhanskoe environs, 55°04´25´´N 22°34´17´´E, 9.VII.1998 (1 ex., mixed forest with Pinus , leg. N.K. Mavrov) .

Comments: The species is reported from Poland ( Gutowski 2004), Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996), Finnland, Sweden, Norway and Latvia ( Silfverberg 2004). On the territory of the former East Prussia, this species has been reported from the present-day northern Poland only ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). In recent polish fauna the species is considered to be common ( Gutowski 2004) and sometime dominant in pine forests (Gutowski et al. 2010). Our material from the region contents numerous specimens of closely related Anthaxia quadripunctata L. (samplings from the Sambian peninsula, the Curonian Spit, and also from Chernyakhovsk, Bagrationovsk and Nesterov districts) but only one male of A. godeti from one locality was registered till present. This record confirms the preliminary opinion (Kuban 2009) about occurrence of the species in the region. The larva feeds under thin bark of Pinus sylvestris ( Ehnström & Axelsson 2002) .

NOSODENDRIDAE ERICHSON, 1846