76. P. marmorata marmorata (Fabricius, 1792)

[ = lugubris (Herbst, 1786)]

Lentz 1879 ( Cetonia marmorata); Bercio & Folwaczny 1979 ( Liocola lugubris); Alekseev & Sakhnov 2000 ( Potosia lugubridis); Alekseev 2007 ( Liocola); Alekseev 2010.

Voucher specimens: 7 [ Cherniakhovsk, 1990; Kaliningrad, 05 September 2008; Mamonovo, 14 September 2008; Bogdanovka, July 2010; Mechnikov, May 2016; ibidem, June 2016; Medovoe, 10 April – 03 July 2018] .

Kaliningrad Region: Bagr. (Heiligenbeil), Chern. (Insterburg), Gur. (Friedrichstein, Königsberg), Zel. (Palmnicken); Bagr., Chern., Gur., Krasn., Oz., Pravd .

Comments: The beetle occurs in tree-lined country roads, forest edges, old parks and abandoned gardens. Larvae develop inside tree hollows and are associated with different deciduous trees ( Quercus, Fagus, Tilia, Carpinus, Acer, Fraxinus, Alnus, Malus), adults feed mainly in crowns of trees. The species is listed in the Red Data Book of the Kaliningrad Region (Dedkov & Grishanov 2010) as comparatively stenotopic species. The species is considered “least concern” at the European level (Nieto & Alexander 2010). Widely distributed and occasional in the Kaliningrad Region.