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Choerades amurensis (HERMANN, 1914) is recorded from the territory of Poland for the first time. Species has been found in Polish Bieszczady Mts. on two localities: in the village of Zatwarnica-Suche Rzeki (FV15), and in Kalnica village in the valley of „Kindrat” stream (FV05) and in Lower Beskidy Mts. in the vicinity of the Ropianka village in the Jaśliska Landscape Park (EV48). One specimen was reared from a dead bough of silver birch Betula pendula Roth collected in Białowieża Primeval Forest (FD84) in sub-continental oak-hornbeam forest Tilio-Carpinetum betuli. Most specimens were observed while lurking for prey on well insolated leaves. All these sites represent the forests with beech forming a forb-rich Carpathian fir-beech forest Dentario glandulosae-Fagetum. The range of silver birch B. pendula spreads from Eastern Asia to Western Europe in various types of tree stands. It may explain the species expansion across Western Palearctic in well preserved areas with old and decaying wood providing ecological corridors. So far, Ch. amurensis has not been known from any tree species in its whole range. It is similar to Ch. femorata-marginata group and is distinguished by the structure of antennae, male genitalia covered with distincitively long hair, the length and density of black hair on mystax and the width of abdomen that narrows to begin from the first to last sternite. The habitus of male and female, details of antennae structure and male copulatory organ are illustrated. Additional new records from Russian Far East are provided.