Melandrya barbata (Fabricius, 1792)

Alekseev, Vitalii I., Drotikova, Anna M., Rozhina, Viktoria I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2021, Addenda To The Knowledge Of Beetles (Insecta: Сoleoptera) Of Kaliningrad Region (Western Russia): New Faunistic Records, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 21 (1), pp. 13-31 : 21

*25. Melandrya barbata (Fabricius, 1792)

Local references: Lentz 1879 (as Melandrya flavicornis Dft., “seldom” without localities); Bercio & Folwaczny 1979 (mentioned for the territory of the former East Prussia from present-day territory of Poland).

Material: 1 km SW Cherniakhovsk , 54.60°N, 21.86°E, 31.05.2021, 1 ex., in flying, forest edge ( Fig. 7 ) .

Comments: This is the first report of the species from Kaliningrad region and Eastern Baltic Region. Rare and very locally distributed species in European Russia, candidate for the Red Book of Russia ( Egorov & Ruchin 2020).

Figures

Figs 3–10. The photographs of the living specimens in nature (Kaliningrad Region): 3 – Stenolophus teutonus; 4 – Potamophilus acuminatus; 5 – Hylis olexai; 6 – Denticollis rubens; 7 – Melandrya barbata; 8 – Mycetophagus ater; 9 – Mordellaria aurofasciata; 10 – Boros schneideri.