Allecula

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 : 167

35. ALLECULA MORIO (FABRICIUS, 1787) Examined material: Recorded only once: Kaliningrad, Maks-Aschmann’s park, 54°44´21.6´´N 20°29´42´´E, 08. III .2009 (1 larva, broadleaved park, in the brown rotten wood of a living old oak (inhabited by Sinodendron cylindricum (Linnaeus, 1758) also), leg. V.

Alekseev & A. Alekseeva), from which an imago emerged 30.V.2009 (cult. V.Alekseev) .

Comments: According to the catalogue of Silfverberg (2004), it is recorded from Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Latvia. The species is also recorded from Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996) and from the Polish part of the Bialowieża primeval forest (Kubisz, Tsinkevich 2001). The species is considered to be very rare in Latvia ( Barševskis et al. 2008). On the territory of the northern part of the former East Prussia, it was reported only from Moosbude [Oktyabr’skoe, the E suburb of Kaliningrad] ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). The larva of this saproxlic rare species feeds on the rotten wood of the old oaks.