Pissodes piceae (Illiger, 1807)

Balalaikins, Maksims & Bukejs, Andris, 2012, Latvian Molytinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae): Research History, Fauna And Bionomy, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 12 (3), pp. 2-20 : 10

Pissodes piceae (Illiger, 1807)

= pini (Panzer, 17XX nec Linnaeus, 1758)

References: Seidlitz 1872 -1875, Ulanowski 1884, Sintensis 1900, Barševskis 1993 (misidentification), Telnov et al. 1997, Telnov 2004; Kalniņš et al. 2007.

Material examined: Not confirmed by the authors. Earlier report ( Barševskis 1993) of this species – «Teiču purvs (bog), 25 September 1989 (1, leg. G. Akmentiņš)», was based on misidentification.

Host plants: Picea ( Pinaceae ).

General distribution: Central Europe. [CEU]

Note: Actual faunal data on this species in Latvia are absent. Record needs confirmation. According to the catalogue of Silfverberg (2010), it is mentioned for Latvia and Lithuania. The species is known also from C and S Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996).