Holotrichapion (Legaricapion) aethiops (Herbst)

Apion aethiops Herbst, 1797

Records. CRI ČER ČRK IFR KHM KHR KYI LWI RIV TER VIN VOL ZAK [Łomnicki 1870: 82; Lindemann 1871: 197; Łomnicki 1884: 344; Łomnicki 1886: 233; Cherkunov 1889: 190; Rybiński 1903b: 154; Łomnicki 1905: 85; Penecke 1928: 382; Shapiro 1930: 144; Kryshtal 1959: 80; Khrolinsky 1965: 114; Solodovnikova 1965a: 9; 1966: 334; 1968: 30; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 303; Kubisz et al. 1998: 264; Mazur 2002: 220; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 168].

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

Material examined. Literature data only.

Biology. Meadows, agricultural habitats. Adults occur in IV–IX (Dieckmann 1977). On Fabaceae: Vicia sativa, V. sepium (Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); V. cracca (Dieckmann 1977) .