Diplapion stolidum (Germar)

Apion stolidum Germar, 1817

Records. CRI ČER DNI DON IFR KHM KHR KYI LUG* LWI ODE RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK [Łomnicki 1884: 34; Cherkunov 1889: 191; Łomnicki 1905: 83; Penecke 1928: 379; Medvedev 1953a: 78; Tveritina 1956b: 138; Solodovnikova 1963c: 154; Khrolinsky 1965: 108; Solodovnikova 1965a: 9; 1965b: 337; 1966: 333; 1968: 30; 1970: 81; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 302; Wanat 1995: 168; Kubisz et al. 1998: 266; Mazur 2002: 220; Alonso- Zarazaga 2004; Sumarokov 2004: 135; Nazarenko 2009c: 38; Sumarokov 2009: 176; Nazarenko 2010a: 703; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 157; Sumarokov & Nazarenko 2015: 17].

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

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (ZIN) Yalta env., Semidvorje, L. Bianki leg., 10-12.ix.1912 ; Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamyshevakha, Arnoldi leg., 18.vi.1937 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Rassypnaya station, steppe, Arnoldi leg., 30.vi.1938 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) steppe along road Nyrkovo-Vyemka, Arnoldi leg., 8.vi.1939 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kharkiv Distr., Yuzhny, Iljin leg., 2.vi.1916 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 3.vi.1916; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Starobelsky uchastok, Silantjev leg., 19.v.1898 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Provallya, S.I. Medvedev leg., 22.vi.1931 .

Biology. Meadows, agricultural habitats. Adults occur in IV–X (Dieckmann 1977). On Asteraceae: Leucanthemum vulgare (Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977; Wanat 1995; Mazur 2002; Nazarenko 2009c); Achillea millefolium, Artemisia absinthium, Inula helenium, Tanacetum corymbosum, T. millefolium, T. vulgare (Solodovnikova 1963a); Anthemis arvensis, Cota tinctoria, Matricaria chamomilla, Tripleurospermum inodorum (Dieckmann 1977; Wanat 1995; Nazarenko 2009).