Checklist of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Kaliningrad Region (Russia)

Abstract

The updated checklist of the superfamily Curculionoidea of the Kaliningrad Region (Russia) is presented. At the moment, 526 species belonging to seven families (Nemonychidae, Anthribidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Dryophthoridae, Brachyceridae, and Curculionidae) are known within the present borders of the region. About 30% of them (159 species) are known only from historical records and their occurrence should be confirmed by new material. The 15 species recorded in the Kaliningrad Region for the first time include: Ceutorhynchus hampei; C. inaffectatus; Cleopomiarus graminis; Crypturgus subcribrosus; Eutrichapion punctigerum; Phyllobius roboretanus; Pityogenes trepanatus; Polydrusus pilosus; P. fulvicornis; Rhinusa collina; Sibinia viscariae; Sitona cylindricollis; S. lateralis; S. waterhousei; Trypodendron signatum. Three species (Hypera denominanda; Neocoenorhinidius pauxillus; Orthotomicus longicollis) were removed from the regional checklist. The checklist is supplemented with 152 species that can be found in the Kaliningrad Region.

Keywords:

• Kaliningrad Region
• beetles
• fauna
• biodiversity

Acknowledgements

I express my sincere thanks to Dr Boris A. Korotyaev (St. Petersburg, Russia) for the great help in identification of some weevil species. Dr Pavel I. Alekseev is cordially thanked for the repeated assistance in beetle material transportation between Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg. I am very grateful to Dr Andrei A. Legalov (Novosibirsk, Russia), Dr Andris Bukejs (Daugavpils, Latvia), Dr Miłosz A. Mazur (Opole, Poland) and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and numerous corrections to the earlier version of the manuscript. The linguistic review of the manuscript by Laima Monkienė (Vilnius, Lithuania) is cordially acknowledged.