Squamapion elongatum (Germar)

Apion elongatum Germar, 1817

Apion millum Gyllenhal, 1833

Records. CRI ČER DNI DON* IFR KHM KHR KYI LUG* LWI MYK ODE RIV SUM TER VIN VOL [Gyllenhal in Schoenherr 1833: 277; Schoenherr 1839: 391; Miller 1868: 24; Lindemann 1871: 196; Łomnicki 1884: 34; Cherkunov 1889: 190; Khrolinsky 1965: 110; Solodovnikova 1965a: 9; 1966: 333; 1968: 30; 1970: 80; Dieckmann 1977: 70; Solodovnikova & Peeva 1978: 77; Solodovnikova 1986: 68; Isayev 1994: 9; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 302; Kubisz et al. 1998: 264; Mazur 2002: 221; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Sumarokov 2004: 135; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 44; Nazarenko 2009c: 40; Sumarokov 2009: 176; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 161; Sumarokov & Nazarenko 2015: 17].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, West Siberia, North Africa (Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Chernivtsi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Černovitz, Formanek; Crimea: 1 spec. (ZIN) Tavel [= Krasnolissya], Kiritschenko leg., 6.v.1907; 1 spec. (ZIN) Simferopol, A. Bazhenov leg., 22.vii.1899; 1 spec. (ZIN) Simferopol, Salgir River valley, A. Bazhenov leg., 13.vii.1899 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 14.vii.1899; 3 spec. (ZIN) idem, 17.vii.1899; 1 spec. (ZIN) Yalta, A. Bazhenov leg., 10.vii.1899; Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (FRC) southern suburb of Kramatorsk, R. V. Filimonov leg., 30.iv.2013; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Konstantinograd, Th.Lukjanovich, 1.viii.1928; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi Distr., Verbky, Kirejtshuk leg., 6.vi.1976; Luhansk Prov.: 1spec. (ZIN) Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 23.v.1928; 2 spec. (ZIN) Stanitsa Luhanska, Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 6.vi.1928; 1 spec. (ZIN) Derkul, Arnoldi leg., 23.vii.1949 .

Biology. Grasslands. Adults occur in IV–XI (Dieckmann 1977). On Lamiaceae: Salvia pratensis (Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977; Nazarenko 2009c); S. glutinosa (Khrolinsky 1965); S. nemorosa (Dieckmann 1977); S. nutans (Isayev 2007) .