Ischnopterapion (Chlorapion) virens (Herbst)

Apion virens Herbst, 1797

Records. CRI ČER ČRK DNI IFR KHM KHR KYI LWI RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK [Miller 1868: 24; Łomnicki 1884: 344; Łomnicki 1886: 233; Hormuzaki 1888: 155; Cherkunov 1889: 191; Rybiński 1903b: 153; Łomnicki 1905: 84; Penecke 1928: 383; Sobol 1954: 316; Kryshtal 1959: 81; Solodovnikova 1963c: 155; Khrolinsky 1965: 115; Solodovnikova 1965a: 10; 1965b: 338; 1966: 334; 1968: 30; Petrukha et al. 1988: 144; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Kubisz et al. 1998: 266; Mazur 2002: 220; Nazarenko & Kravchenko 2002: 36; Alonso- Zarazaga 2004; Nazarenko 2005a: 90; Nazarenko 2007a: 94; Nazarenko 2007b: 231; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 45; Nazarenko 2009b: 499; Nazarenko 2010d: 82; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 170; Nazarenko 2012g: 51].

Distribution. Europe, Levant, Siberia, North Africa; introduced in North America (Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Ivano-Frankivsk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kolomyja, Zaslavsky leg., 20.v.1958; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kharkiv Distr., Yuzhny, Iljin leg., 2.vi.1916 ; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets- Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 3.v.1908; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kyiv; Zakarpatska Prov .: 1 spec. (ZIN) Beregove Distr., Velyka Bakta, A. Koval leg., 18.vii.1980; 4 spec. (ZIN) Rakhiv Distr., 5–8 km NW Kvasy, V. Gusarov leg., 21.viii.1994 ; 4 spec. (ZIN) Rakhiv Distr., 8 km S of Bogdan, V. Gusarov leg., 19.viii.1994 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Chorna Tysa, N. Yunakov leg., 6.vii.2000 .

Biology. Meadows, agricultural and ruderal habitats. Adults occur in I–XI (Dieckmann 1977). On Fabaceae: Trifolium arvense (Hoffmann 1958); T. pratense, T. repens (Hoffmann 1958; Khrolinsky 1965; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); T. montanum (Solodovnikova 1963a); T. fragiferum, T. incarnatum (Dieckmann 1977); T. hybridum, T. medium (Dedyukhin 2012) .