Agapanthia (Smaragdula) intermedia Ganglbauer, 1884

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 : 23

*34. Agapanthia (Smaragdula) intermedia Ganglbauer, 1884

Local references: Not reported earlier.

Material: 1 km W Cherniakhovsk , 54.64°N, 21.85°E, 10.06.2020, 1 ex., sweeping, dry meadow near Angrapa riverbank .

Comments: This is the first report of the species from the Kaliningrad region. Few years ago, it was recorded in Lithuania ( Ivinskis et al. 2015). The species is absent in the list of the beetles of the former East Prussia (Bercio & Folwaczny 1979) and apparently was absent in the local fauna before the XXI century. The species probably extends the distribution range northwards nowadays and occurs in the intrazonal xeric habitats in eastern Kaliningrad region and in southern Lithuania at northern periphery of main distributional area.