Oxystoma opeticum (Bach)

Apion opeticum Bach, 1854

Records. ČER IFR KHM LWI SUM TER VIN ZAK [Łomnicki 1884: 34; Łomnicki 1886: 229; Hormuzaki 1888: 155; Łomnicki 1905: 83; Penecke 1932: 355; Tveritina 1953: 63; Tveritina 1956b: 138; Solodovnikova 1965a: 10; 1965b: 336; 1966: 334; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 303; Kubisz et al. 1998: 265; Mazur 2002: 221].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Siberia, Mongolia, North China (Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Literature data only.

Biology. Forests and shrublands. Adults occur in IV–X (Dieckmann 1977). On Lathyrus vernus (Fabaceae) (Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977; Mazur 2002).