Abdera flexuosa, (PAYKULL, 1799)

Alekseev, Vitaly I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2010, Contributions to the knowledge of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Kaliningrad region. 1., Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (2), pp. 157-176 : 166

31. ABDERA FLEXUOSA (PAYKULL, 1799) Examined material: Recorded only once: Zelenogradsk district, Otradnoe environs, 54°56´26.2´´N 20°8´27.1´´E, 09.VI.2009 (1 ex., humid Alnetum aegopodiosum forest on the slope of a ravine on the Baltic Sea coast, on vegetation, leg. V. Alekseev & A. Alekseeva) .

Comments: This species is wide distributed in the whole Baltic and Fennoscandian region and has been recorded from all territories except Lithuania ( Silfverberg 2004). It has also been recorded from Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996) and in the Bialowieża primeval forest ( Sućko & Tsinkevich 2001). On the territory of the northern part of the former East Prussia, it has been reported from Königsberg [Kaliningrad] and Warnicken [Lesnoe] ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). The larva feeds and develops mostly in the fungi Inonotus radiatus on alder ( Nikitsky et al. 1996).

ZOPHERIDAE SOLIER, 1834