Longitarsus nigrofasciatus, (Goeze, 1777)

Bukejs, Andris, 2010, To The Knowledge Of Flea Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae) Of The Latvian Fauna. 6. Genus Longitarsus Latreille, 1829, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 10 (1), pp. 53-70 : 57

L. nigrofasciatus (Goeze, 1777)

syn.: lateralis (Illiger, 1807)

References: Mikutowitz 1911 (lateralis Ill.); Palij 1958; Pūtele 1965, 1970a, 1970b, 1971; Barševskis 1993; Telnov et al. 1997; Telnov 2004; Kalniņš et al. 2007.

Examined material: Not confirmed by the author. Some earlier records of this species in Latvia – “Talsi d.: Slītere, 20.VIII.1983 (1, leg. V.Pūtele)” [in the collection of Institute of Biology ] and “Krāslava d.: Šķeltova, 18.VIII.1992 (1, Voloku forest, leg. A.Barševskis)” ( Barševskis 1993) were based on misidentification .

Host plants: Verbascum , Scrophularia ( Scrophulariaceae ).

Phenology: VII, VIII, IX, X (1).

General distribution: Europe (excl. N), N Africa, Asia Minor, Near East, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Centarl Asia. [ CEM]

Note: Record needs confirmation. According to the catalogue of Silfverberg (2004), it is mentioned for Latvia and Norway. The species is known also from S Belarus ( Lopatin, Nesterova 2005).