Silis

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 : 162

13. SILIS NITIDULA (FABRICIUS, 1792)

Examined material: Recorded twice: E suburb of Chernyakhovsk , 54°38´12.9´´N, 21°51´7.7´´E, 25.V.1994 (1 ex., bank of the Angrapa River, willow bushes, leg. V. Alekseev, det. B. A. Korotyaev); 3 km E Chernyakhovsk, 54°38´47.3´´N 21°57´8.6´´E, 10.V.2009 (1 ex., bank of the Angrapa River, leg. V. Alekseev & A. Alekseeva) .

Comments: This species has been reported from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ( Silfverberg 2004) and also from Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996) and Poland ( Chobotow 2002). In Lithuania and central-eastern Poland, this beetle is considered to be rare ( Ferenca et al. 2002; Chobotow 2002), and in the northern part of the former East Prussia, it was restricted to the northern and central parts of the Sambian peninsula and to the south-east of the region – Rominten [Krasnoles’e] ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979).

DERMESTIDAE LATREILLE, 1804