Oprohinus suturalis (Fabricius)

Curculio suturalis Fabricius, 1775

Records. ČER DNI IFR KHM KHR KYI LWI RIV TER VIN VOL ŽIT* [Łomnicki 1874: 17; Łomnicki 1884: 33; Łomnicki 1886: 223; Rybiński 1903b: 149; Smirnov 1911: 189; Penecke 1928: 370; Shapiro 1930: 143; Korotyaev 1980: 203; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 307; Kubisz et al. 1998: 275; Mazur 2002: 234; Colonnelli 2004a: 50; Colonnelli 2004b; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 47; Sumarokov 2009: 177; Colonnelli 2013: 198].

Distribution. Europe, Asia Minor, Levant, Kazakhstan, North Africa (Colonnelli 2013).

Material examined. Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Zmiiv Distr., Gaidary, Biological Station, Arnoldi leg., 8.v.1918 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Merefa, Stepanov leg., 1.vii.1955 ; Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Novohrad-Volynsky .

Biology. Steppes, stony slopes, agricultural habitats. Adults occur in IV–VIII (Lohse 1983n). On Amaryllidaceae: Allium cepa, A. oleraceum, A. porrum, A. ursinum, A. vineale (Hoffmann 1954; Dieckmann 1972b; Smreczyński 1974); A. schoenoprasum (Dieckmann 1972b; Smreczyński 1974); A. sativum, A. sphaerocephalon (Kryzhanovskaya 1977); Muscari sp. ( Asparagaceae) (Hoffmann 1954; Colonnelli 2004a).