Cryptocephalus populi Suffrian, 1848

Bukejs, Andris, 2010, Some Leaf-Beetles Species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Mistakenly Reported For The Latvian Fauna, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 10 (1), pp. 71-75 : 3

Cryptocephalus populi Suffrian, 1848

References: Telnov et al. 1997; Telnov 2004; Bukejs et al. 2007; Bukejs 2008a.

Material in revised collection: Records of this species “Šķede, 24.07.1973 (1 ex., leg. V.Pūtele)”, “ Malta, 07.07.1977 (1 ex., leg. V.Pūtele) ”, and “Rūķīši, 24.07.1973 (1 ex., leg. V.Pūtele)” were misidentified and relate to C. fulvus Goeze, 1777 . Host plants: Salix, Populus ( Lopatin, Nesterova 2005) .

General distribution: C and S Europe, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, south part of Russian Far East.

Note: Faunal data of this species in Latvia are absent and its occurrence in local fauna is doubtful, therefore it is excluded from the list of Latvian Coleoptera . The nearest known locality of this species is in Poland ( Warchałowski 1991; A. Warchałowski pers. comm.) and southern Belarus ( Lopatin, Nesterova 2005).