Scymnus (Parapullus) abietis (Paykull, 1798)

SZAWARYN, Karol, CERYNGIER, Piotr & ROMANOWSKI, Jerzy, 2018, New data on the distribution of ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in the eastern part of the Baltic Coast region in Poland, Fragmenta Faunistica 61 (1), pp. 39-53 : 46

* Scymnus (Parapullus) abietis (Paykull, 1798)

Material: Kuźnica (CF46): 27 Jul 2013, 1 ex. shaken down from spruce (Picea abies), leg. PC.

This species feeds on adelgids (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) associated with conifers or on scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccidae) on deciduous trees ( Nedvěd 2015). In older literature reported mostly from southern Poland ( Burakowski et al. 1986). Recently recorded in the southern ( Greń et al. 2013), central ( Ruta et al. 2009, Borowski 2015, Ceryngier et al. 2016c), western ( Ceryngier et al. 2016b), eastern ( Jędryczkowski & Gutowski 2014, Plewa et al. 2014a, 2014b) and north-eastern part of the country ( Ceryngier et al. 2015). In the Baltic Coast found in 2007 by O. Aleksandrowicz near Świnoujście (Coleoptera Poloniae: http://baza.biomap.pl/pl/data/record/622121/default).