Trichiini Fleming, 1821

Alekseev, Vitalii I., 2018, Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) Of The Kaliningrad Region (Russia): The Commented Actual Checklist, Assessment Of Rarity And Notes To Regional Protection, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 18 (2), pp. 111-152 : 140-141

Tribe Trichiini Fleming, 1821

Genus Gnorimus Le Peletier et Audinet- Serville, 1828

79. G. nobilis nobilis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lentz 1879; Bercio & Folwaczny 1979; Alekseev & Sakhnov 2000; Alekseev & Nikitsky 2008; Alekseev & Bukejs 2011; Alekseev et al. 2012. Voucher specimens: 3 [Kaliningrad, 08 June 1998; Otradnoe, 30 June 2006; Riabinovka, 08 July 2010] .

Kaliningrad Region: Gur. (Juditten, Kleinheide, Neuhausen), Gvard. (Löwenhagen), Zel. (Georgenswalde, Rauschen, Warnicken); Gur., Zel.

Comments: The species is connected with broad–leaved parks and forests (oak-limehornbeam). Beetles occur on flowers of Apiacea and Rosacea in June-July. The species is listed in the Red Data Book of the Kaliningrad Region ( Dedkov & Grishanov 2010) and is considered “least concern” at the European level ( Nieto & Alexander 2010). Sporadically distributed (known in the Sambian peninsula only) and occasional species.

80. G. variabilis (Linnaeus, 1758)

[= octopunctatus (Fabricius, 1775)]

Lentz 1879; Bercio & Folwaczny 1979; Alekseev & Sakhnov 2000 (octopunctatus).

Voucher specimens: 1 [Pravdinsk, before 1995].

Kaliningrad Region: Gur. (Karmitten, Königsberg, Neuhausen, Wilkie); Zel. (Frische Nehrung); Gur. (?), Pol. (?), Pravd.

Comments: The locally distributed and rare species associated with hollows of ancient

oaks and listed in the Red Data Book of the Kaliningrad Region ( Dedkov & Grishanov 2010) and is considered “near threteaned” at the European level ( Nieto & Alexander 2010). The unique specimen in the author collection is without precise label and probable was collected before 1995 in Pravdinsk district. Additionally, there are verbal communication concerning the species in the area of the present-day Kaliningrad Region (e.g. vicinity of Bogdanovka in Pollesk district, Gur’evsk vicinity, both before 1995), but the proofs are absent.

Genus Osmoderma LePeletier et Audinet-