Pseudoperapion brevirostre (Herbst)

Apion brevirostre Herbst, 1797

Records. CRI ČER ČRK DON IFR KHE KHM KHR KYI LUG LWI POL RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK ŽIT [Łomnicki 1884: 34; Cherkunov 1889: 190; Łomnicki 1905: 85; Penecke 1928: 382; Kryshtal 1949: 181; Solodovnikova 1963a: 225; 1963c: 155; 1965a: 8; 1965b: 338; 1966: 333; 1968: 30; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 302; Kubisz et al. 1998: 264; Nazarenko & Moroz 2000b: 40; Nazarenko & Moroz 2001: 39; Mazur 2002: 221; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 52; Nazarenko 2009b: 499; Nazarenko 2009c: 40; Kravchenko 2010: 59; Nazarenko 2012g: 51; Nazarenko 2013a: 109; Nazarenko 2013b: 18; Nazarenko & Kobzar 2014: 528].

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

Material examined. Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Nyrkovo-Vyemka steppe, Arnoldi leg., 8.vi.1939 ; Ivano- Frankivsk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Gorodenka Distr., S of Torgovytsya, Kirejtshuk leg., 8.vi.1976 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Zmiiv Distr., Gaidary, Biological Station, Arnoldi leg., 20.viii.1932 ; Kherson Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Aleshki, agricultural research station, 7.viii.1927 ; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Starobelsk, Silantjev leg., 10.vi.1898 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Provallya, S.I. Medvedev leg., 19.vi.1936 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, Talicky leg., 23.vi.1928; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 13.vi.1929; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 14.vi.1929; Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava env., Th. Lukjanovich leg., 6.vi.1926; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 15.vi.1926; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 18.vi.1926; Zakarpatska Prov.: 3 spec. (ZIN) Uzhhorod Distr., Lypova Skala, N. Yunakov leg., 6.vii.2000 .

Biology. Forest edge, meadows, ruderal habitats. Adults occur in IV–X (Dieckmann 1977). On Hypericum perforatum (Penecke 1928; Hoffmann 1958; Dieckmann 1977; Nazarenko 2009c); H. hirsutum (Hoffmann 1958; Dieckmann 1977; Nazarenko 2009c); H. elegans, H. maculatum (Hypericaceae) (Dedyukhin 2012).