Boros schneideri (Panzer, 1795)

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 : 22

*30. Boros schneideri (Panzer, 1795)

Local references: Bercio & Folwaczny 1979 (reported on the territory of the former East Prussia from present-day territory of Poland).

Material: Polessk district , 3 km S Fevral’skoe, 54.80°N, 21.32°E, 22.03.2021, 4 exx, under bark of dead standing medium-sized pines in edge of coniferous forest ( Fig. 10 ) .

Comments: This is the first report of the species from Kaliningrad region. It is rare and locally distributed in Eastern Baltic region and Poland ( Gutowski et al. 2014; Ozols et al. 2020), and could be candidate for the next issue of the Red Book of Kaliningrad Region. The species connected with the southern taiga forest type and associated with standing dead pines.

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.