Cionus thapsus thapsus (Fabricius)

Curculio thapsus Fabricius, 1792

Cionus simplex Rosenschöld, 1838

Cionus similis des Gozis, 1884

Cionus simplex v. bipunctatus Reitter, 1904

Records. CRI ČER ČNG ČRK DNI DON IFR KHE KHM KHR KRO KYI LUG LWI ODE POL SUM* TER VIN ZAP ŽIT [Andrzeiowski 1823; Hummel 1827: 41; Krynicki 1832: 145; Rosenschöld in Schoenherr 1838: 731; Schoenherr 1845: 178; Chernay 1854: 170, 246; Nowicki 1864: 38; Łomnicki 1870: 82; Lindemann 1871: 199, 294; Król 1877: 56; Łomnicki 1884: 32; Łomnicki 1886: 218; Silantiev 1898: XXV; Rybiński 1903b: 152; Reitter, 1904: 52; Łomnicki 1905: 82; Smirnov 1911: 189; Tenenbaum 1923: 178; Penecke 1928: 378; Shapiro 1930: 144; Tenenbaum 1931: 358; Penecke 1932: 355; Tenenbaum 1937: 345; Wingelmüller 1937: 190; Shapiro 1940a: 52; Kryshtal 1949: 179; Medvedev 1953a: 78; Arnoldi 1956: 338; Globova 1958: 167; Nadvorny 1996: 60; Gumovsky 1997: 59; Mazur 2002: 227; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 54; Caldara 2004a; Sumarokov 2009: 177; Caldara 2013a: 124].

Distribution. West Palaearctic (excluding North Africa) (Caldara 2013a).

Material examined. Zhytomyr Prov.: 6 spec. (ZIN) Lyubar Distr., Motovylivka, Zverozomb-Zubovsky leg., 25.v.1912; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Darnytsya, Zverozomb-Zubovsky leg., 11.vii.1912; 4 spec. (ZIN) idem, 15.vii.1912; Sumy Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Shostka, Kurnakov leg., 10.vi.1948; Poltava Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, D. Ogloblin leg., 5.vi.1911; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 4.v.1923; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, Th.Lukjanovitsh leg., 6.viii.1927; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava env., Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 6.vi.1922; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 18.vi.1922; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 27.vi.1922; 3 spec. (ZIN) idem, 4.vii.1926; 1 spec. (ZIN) Triby, Poltava Distr., Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 12.v.1922; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 22.v.1922; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava Distr., Svinkovka, D. Ogloblin leg., 20.vii.1912; Kharkiv Prov.: 6 spec. (ZIN) Konstantinograd, Th.Lukjanovitsh leg., 1.viii.1923; 1 spec. (ZIN) Zakomelskaya, Arnoldi leg., 28.vi.1939; 1 spec. (ZIN) Zmiiv Distr., Gaidary, Biological Station, Arnoldi leg., 24.v.1923; Donetsk Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Yarova, Arnoldi leg., 2.vi.1937; 1 spec. (ZIN) Novoselivka, Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 23.vi.1937; 1 spec. (ZIN) Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 27.v.1937; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 28.v.1939; 3 spec. (ZIN) Svyatohirsk Monastery, Prishib, K. Arnoldi &L. Arnoldi leg., 5.vii.1936; 1 spec. (ZIN) Prishib, Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 18.vi.1936; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 20.vii.1937; 1 spec. (ZIN) Tetyanivka, Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 11.vi.1937; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 17.vi.1937; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 20.v.1939; 4 spec. (ZIN) Steppe along Nyrkovo-Vyemka, Arnoldi leg., 8.vi.1939; Luhansk Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Streltsovsky Step Nature Reserve, G.E. Davidian leg., 7.viii.1989; Dnipro Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Ekaterinoslav [= Dnipro], A. Yakovlev leg.; Kherson Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kherson, Graftio leg., 22.v.1899; 1 spec. (ZIN) Korsun, Ter-Minasian leg., 23.vii.1933; 5 spec. (ZIN) Askania-Nova Nature Reserve, Ter-Minasian leg., 25.v.1933; 1 spec. (ZIN) Askania-Nova Nature Reserve, D. R. Kasparyan leg., 28.v.1974; Crimea: 3 spec. (ZIN) Crimea, J. Wagner leg.

Biology. Forest edge, dry slopes, sandy and ruderal habitats. Adults occur in IV–IX (Gumovsky 1997). On Scrophulariaceae: Verbascum lychnitis, V. nigrum, V. thapsus (Wingelmüller 1937; Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1976; Gumovsky 1997); V. sinuatum (Hoffmann 1958); V. phlomoides . (Smreczyński 1976; Gumovsky 1997; Isayev 2007); V. chaixii subsp. orientale, V. phoeniceum (Isayev 2007) .