Otiorrhynchus armadillo (Rossi, 1792)

Alekseev, Vitalii I., Drotikova, Anna M., Rozhina, Viktoria I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2021, Addenda To The Knowledge Of Beetles (Insecta: Сoleoptera) Of Kaliningrad Region (Western Russia): New Faunistic Records, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 21 (1), pp. 13-31 : 25

*48. Otiorrhynchus armadillo (Rossi, 1792)

Local references: Not reported earlier.

Material: Kaliningrad, 54.71°N, 20.43°E, 26.08.2020, 1 ex., sweeping on bushes along roadside in evening; ibidem, 29.08.2020, 2 exx (aedeagus – Fig. 17 , left box) ; Kaliningrad, 54.71°N, 20.45°E, 31.08.2020, 1 ex., on lilac ; Kaliningrad, 54.71°N, 20.44°E, 11.07.2021, 1 ex., on ground ( Fig. 17 ) .

Comments: This is the first report of the species from Kaliningrad region and the first in European Russia outside the North Caucasus, where the species is known from vicinity of Sochi in Krasnodar Region ( Bieńkowski 2019). This adventive species recently introduced in Kaliningrad region and actually known from western part of Kaliningrad city only. O. armadillo started to occupy northern Europe in the end of XX century: it was recorded from Sweden in 1995 ( Borisch 1997; Fägerström et al. 2010), from Great Britain in 1998 ( Barclay 2003), from Poland in 2005 ( Mazur & Mokrzycki 2011; Konopko et al. 2017; Jarosiewicz & Nejfeld 2020), from Netherlands in 2008 ( Heijerman & Hellingman 2008), and from Norway and Lithuania in 2010 ( Staverløkk 2010; Ivinskis et al. 2013).

Figures

Figs11–18.The photographsofthelivingspecimensinnature(KaliningradRegion):11–Pilemostoma fastuosum; 12 – Palaeocallidium coriaceum; 13 – Rhagium sycophanta; 14 – Ropalopus macropus; 15 – Cleopus pulchellus; 16 – Lixus filiformis; 17 – Otiorrhynchus armadillo, female (left box – aedeagus from collected specimen of 2020 year); 18 – Rhopalapion longirostre.