Archarius (Archarius) pyrrhoceras (Marsham)

Curculio pyrrhoceras Marsham, 1802

Records. CRI ČER DON IFR KHE KHM KHR KRO KYI LUG LWI MYK* RIV TER VIN VOL ZAK [Łomnicki 1884: 32; 1886: 214; Cherkunov 1889: 192; Łomnicki 1905: 80; Penecke 1928: 374 ( pyroceras Marsh.); Pyatakova 1930: 333; Shapiro 1940a: 52; Medvedev 1950a: 42; 1950c: 95; 1953b: 1134; ( Curculio pyroceras); Zelinskaya 1977: 73; Kubisz et al. 1998: 272; Mazur 2002: 227; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 53; Nazarenko 2005a: 91; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 46; Nazarenko 2010d: 83; 2012f: 51].

Distribution. West Palaearctic (excluding Middle Asia, West Siberia) (Caldara 2013a)

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (KUMN) Karadag reserve, N slope of Kara-Agach Mt. Range, forest understory, S. Medvedev leg., 1.v.1957 ; Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 10 km NNE Torez, Urochyshche Grabovo (= Grabova Balka), sweeping, Shapiro leg., 28.v.1953; 2 spec. (KUMN) 6 km NNW Snezhnoe, env. of Andreevka, under forest on oaks, S. Medvedev leg., 28.v.1952 ; Kherson Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, Ivano-Rybalche Division, on oak, S. Medvedev leg., 4.vi.1951; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 7 km S Zmiiv, Gaidary, Bartenev leg., 1.v.1989; 4 spec. (KUMN) 8 km SW Izyum, env. of Topalskoe, forest belt, on young foliage of oak, A.N. Drogvalenko leg., 2.v.2010 ; 8 spec. (KUMN) SEE Kharkiv env., env. of Dokuchaeva, on Quercus robur, N. Yunakov leg., 17.v.1997 ; 4 spec. (KUMN) idem, N. Yunakov leg., 29.v.1995; 3 spec. (KUMN) idem, motley grass, N. Yunakov leg., 16.v.1995; 1 spec. (KUMN) idem, dry slope of ravine, on Sarothamnusscoparius Yunakov leg., 18.iv.1999; 1 spec. (KUMN) W env. of Kharkiv, deciduous forest near Institute of Cryobiology, sweeping Drogvalenko leg., 6.v.1996 ; Kyiv Prov.: 2 spec. (SIZK) Kyiv, Urochyshche Lysa Hora, sweeping, forest, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 24.iv.1999 ; Mykolaiv Prov.: 2 spec. (LGC) Kazanka Distr., Lisne, A.I. Golovatyuk leg., 21.v.2005;

Biology. Forests. Adults occur in IV–VII. On Quercus spp. ( Fagaceae) (Ter-Minasian 1956; Dieckmann 1988)