Cynaeus angustus (LeConte, 1851)

Drăghici, Andreea-Cătălina, Pintilioaie, Alexandru-Mihai, Murariu, Dumitru, Manci, Cosmin-Ovidiu & Ruzzier, Enrico, 2025, New additions and further records of non-native Coleoptera in Romania, Zootaxa 5575 (3), pp. 409-428 : 416

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5575.3.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4B1C253B-95F1-4F55-8EA1-F311AB52A6A2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14747175
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F687B8-A329-562A-7F94-3A17FDDDFD69
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Cynaeus angustus (LeConte, 1851)
status

Treatment

Materials examined. Tulcea County: General Praporgescu (near), 45.0149°N / 28.3968°E, 29. VI GoogleMaps .2021, at light/with light, Cosmin-Ovidiu Manci leg.(1specimen), COMC ; Constanța County: Dumbrăveni (near), 43.9355°N / 27.9952°E, 16.IX.2022, pasture—at light, Cosmin-Ovidiu Manci leg. (12 specimens), COMC GoogleMaps ; Constanța County: “Dunele Marine de la Agigea” Nature Reserve , 44.0876°N / 28.6422°E, 14.VII.2023, collected at light, Alexandru-Mihai Pintilioaie leg. (1 specimen), AMPC GoogleMaps .

Remarks. Species of Nearctic origin ( Kovalenko et al. 2016), with natural hosts such as Yucca sp. ( Asparagaceae ) and other semisucculent plants. Hatch (1940) observed C. angustus in a flour mill in Seattle in 1939. Cynaeus angustus is considered a potential storage insect pest globally ( Furui et al. 2020), and it has already been reported to cause damage to various stored grains, particularly corn ( Dunkel et al. 1982). The species was recently found in Romania ( Pintilioaie & Teodorescu 2021), and the current new records suggest that it already has some stable populations spread across the country.