Protapion nigritarse (Kirby)

Apion nigritarse Kirby, 1808

Records. CRI ČER ČRK DNI IFR KHM KHR KYI LUG LWI RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK [Łomnicki 1884: 34; Łomnicki 1886: 232; Hormuzaki 1888: 155; Cherkunov 1889: 190; Rybiński 1903b: 153; Łomnicki 1905: 84; Iljin 1926: 228; Penecke 1928: 381; Kryshtal 1949: 180; Sobol 1954: 316; Kryshtal 1959: 81; Globova 1963: 114; Solodovnikova 1963a: 224; Solodovnikova 1963c: 155; Khrolinsky 1965: 111; Solodovnikova 1965a: 10; 1965b:

337; 1966: 334; 1968: 30; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 303; Kubisz et al. 1998: 265; Mazur 2002: 221; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Nazarenko 2005a: 90; Nazarenko 2005b: 59; Nazarenko 2006b: 163; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 45; Nazarenko 2009b: 499; Nazarenko 2009c: 40; Nazarenko 2010d: 82; Nazarenko 2012g: 51].

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

Material examined. Cherkasy Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kaniv, Lukjanovitch leg., 15.vii.1936; Crimea: 1 spec. (ZIN) Tauria, 89, Alupka; 1 spec. (ZIN) Golubinka, Belbek River Valley, N. Derbeneva leg., 4.vi.1956 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Nikitsky Botanical Garden, D. Kasparyan leg., 15.iv.1989 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Yalta, G.E. Davidian leg., 11.v.1990 ; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kyiv, Artobolevski leg., 1914.

Biology. Meadows, agricultural and ruderal habitats. Adults occur in IV–X (Dieckmann 1977). On Fabaceae: Trifolium campestre, T. dubium (Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977; Nazarenko 2009c); T. repens (Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Nazarenko 2009c); T. hybridum, T. phragiferum, T. pratense (Hoffmann 1958); T. aureum (Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977; Nazarenko 2009c).