Euglenes pygmaeus, (DEGEER, 1775)

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 : 168

39. EUGLENES PYGMAEUS (DEGEER, 1775)

Examined material: Recorded only once from a light-trap on the Curonian Spit: 23 km NNE Zelenogradsk, 55°5´21.6´´N 20°43´41.7´´E, 27.06.2009 (1 ex., leg. A.P. Shapoval) .

Comments: This species is widely distributed across the whole Baltic and Fennoscandian region and has been reported from all territories except Denmark ( Silfverberg 2004). It has also been recorded from Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996) and in the Bialowieża primeval forest (Kubisz, Tsinkevich 2001). On the territory of the northern part of the former East Prussia, it has been recorded from Königsberg [Kaliningrad] and Neuhäuser [Mechnikov] ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979).

CHRYSOMELIDAE LATREILLE, 1802