Melolonthinae Samouelle, 1819

Alekseev, Vitalii I., 2018, Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) Of The Kaliningrad Region (Russia): The Commented Actual Checklist, Assessment Of Rarity And Notes To Regional Protection, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 18 (2), pp. 111-152 : 136

Subfamily Melolonthinae Samouelle, 1819 Tribe Rhizotrogini Reitter, 1901 Genus Amphimallon Berthold, 1827

63. A. solstitiale solstitiale (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lentz 1879; Bercio & Folwaczny 1979 (solstitialis); Alekseev & Sakhnov 2000 (solstitialis); Alekseev 2007; Alekseev & Shapoval 2011b; Alekseev 2014.

Voucher specimens: 4 [Cherniakhovsk, 10 June 1987; Dolzhanskoe, 29 June 1997; Kaliningrad, 15 July 2010; ibidem, 18 June 2018] .

Kaliningrad Region: “Common everywhere”, Bagr. (Heiligenbeil), Gur. (Königsberg); Bagr., Chern., Gur., Gus., Gvard., Krasn., Nem., Nest., Oz., Pol., Pravd., Slav., Zel .

Comments: Widely distributed and frequent in the Kaliningrad Region species of human influenced landscapes: parks, suburbs and villages.

Ziani et al. 2015.

Kaliningrad Region: The species is known from Königsberg [Kaliningrad] according to Ziani et al. (2015) only. The actual presence of the species in the regional fauna needs verification: the range costriction in XX century or errorneous labeling of old material as “Königsberg” is possible. The species known in western Belarus from single locality (Alexandovitch & Pisanenko 1991) and in northern Poland according old data ( Lentz 1879; Stebnicka 1978; Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). It is confirmed regionally extinct in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at present ( Rössner 2013).