Podabrus alpinus, (PAYKULL, 1798)

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

12. PODABRUS ALPINUS (PAYKULL, 1798) Examined material: Recorded twice: Zelenogradsk district, 2 km NW Logvino, 54°47´18.4´´N 20°16´53´´E, 25.V.2002 (1 ex., mixed forest, leg. V. Alekseev); 1 km W Svetlogorsk, 54°56´26.2´´N 20°8´27.1´´E, 02.VI.2008 (1 ex., mixed forest, leg. V. Alekseev) .

Comments: The species is widely distributed in the Baltic region and has been reported from all the Baltic and Fennoscandian States ( Silfverberg 2004) and also from northern Belarus ( Alexandrovitch et al. 1996). On the territory of the northern part of the former East Prussia, it has been recorded from Königsberg [Kaliningrad], Löwenhagen [Komsomol’sk], Zehlau [the bog Zehlau, 3-8 km N of the village Grushevka in Pravdinsk district] and Insterburg [Chernyakhovsk] ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979).