Oryctes Hellwig, 1798

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 : 138

Genus Oryctes Hellwig, 1798

73. O. nasicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lentz 1879; Bercio & Folwaczny 1979; Alekseev & Sakhnov 2000; Alekseev 2007.

Voucher specimens: 2 [Cherniakhovsk, 1990; Cherniakhovsk, 1997].

Kaliningrad Region: Chern. (Insterburg), Gur. (Königsberg), Gus. (Gumbinnen), Nest. (Gross Trakehnen), Pravd. (Friedland), Slav. (Linkuhnen), Zel. (Kurische Nehrung); Chern., Gur., Krasn., Oz., Zel .

Comments: The almost exclusively synanthropic in the Region species is associated with the heaps of the horse manure near stables and greenhouses. The quite numerous larvae of the species was only once observed in more or less natural ecosystem [Krasn.: Dolzhanskoe einvirons, July 1997, clearing in mixed forest, the heaps of sawdust]. Sporadically distributed and occasional species in the Kaliningrad Region .