Orchesia minor Walker 1837 ...

• Main Authors: Alekseev, Vitaly I., Bukejs, Andris
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Melandryidae; Orchesia; Orchesia minor; Fennoscandian
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13201193; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13201193

30. ORCHESIA MINOR WALKER, 1837 * Examined material: Recorded only from one locality: Bagrationovsk district, near the railway station “ 1312 km ”, 54°33´10´´N 20°9´30´´E, 02.V.2009 (1 ex., Fagetum forest at the lakeside, sweeping of bushes, leg. V. Alekseev). Comments: New species for the fauna of the Kaliningrad region. This species is widely distributed in the whole Baltic and Fennoscandian region and is mentioned for all territories (Silfverberg 2004). It has also been recorded in Belarus (Alexandrovitch et al. 1996). This species is considered to be very rare in Lithuania (Ferenca et al. 2006) and Latvia (Telnov et al. 2006). From the territory of the former East Prussia, it has only been recorded from northern Poland (Bercio & Folwaczny 1979). The larva of this species occurs under flask fungi (Pyrenomycetes) in dead wood of the thin stems and branches of birch and hazel (Nikitsky et al. 1996). ... : Published as part of Alekseev, Vitaly I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2010, Contributions to the knowledge of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Kaliningrad region. 1., pp. 157-176 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (2) on page 166, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204446 ...