Oedemera croceicollis, GYLLENHAL, 1827

Alekseev, Vitaly I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2011, Contributions to the knowledge of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Kaliningrad region. 2, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 11 (2), pp. 209-231 : 216

25. OEDEMERA CROCEICOLLIS GYLLENHAL, 1827 *

Examined material: In the research period was caught only once: Bagrationovsk district , 1 km NE Mamonovo, 54°49´58´´N 19°93´64´´E, 10.VII.2010 (1 ex., sweeping on grass: Phragmites, Carex, Labiatae , the humid shore of the Kaliningrad gulf, leg. V. Alekseev) .

Comments: The species is recorded from Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Estonia ( Silfverberg 2004). It is known also from Latvia (BarƱevskis 2009) and Poland ( Kubisz 2006). For the territory of the former East Prussia, it has been reported from the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in the present-day northern Poland ( Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). New species for the Kaliningrad fauna. The bionomy of the species is poorly known: as known, the beetle is connected with seasides and and banks of large rivers, the larva and the life hystory are unknown ( Kubisz 2006).

MELOIDAE GYLLENHAL, 1810