Gronops (Gronops) lunatus (Fabricius)

Curculio lunatus Fabricius 1775

Records. ČER ČER IFR KHE KHR* KYI* LWI ODE POL* TER ZAK [Łomnicki 1875: 176; 1886: 201; Hormuzaki 1888: 152; Cherkunov 1889: 188; Kulikowski 1897: 199; Rybiński 1903: 143; Łomnicki 1905: 71; Penecke 1932: 351; Roubal 1941: 211; Polischuk 1974; Gontarenko & Nazarenko 2000: 48; Mazur 2002: 229].

Distribution. Europe, North Africa (Meregalli 2013)

Material examined. Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Zmiiv Distr., biol. station, Arnoldi leg., 24.v.1923 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Donets; Kyiv Prov .: 1 spec. (SIZK) Kiev, SovkhozBuchansky, cabbage plantation, A.A. Petrenko leg., 29.v.1974 ; 5 spec. (SIZK) Ivankov Distr., Termakovka, along river, forest, on meadovs, M.N. Nesterov leg., 10.x.1978 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) Snetinka, winter wheat, V.N. Lobko leg., 25.ix.1985 ; Lviv Prov.: 4 spec. (DMLU) Lviv, 4.iv; 1.ix; 14.ix; Ternopil Prov .: 1 spec. (DMLU) Gaji, iv.08 (DMLU); Poltava Prov .: 1 spec. (SIZK) near Myrgorod city, floodlands of Khorol River, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 10.x.1995 .

Biology. Sands. Adults occur in IV–X. On Caryophyllaceae: Spergula spp., Spergulariarubra, Herniaria spp. (Péricart 1958; Tempère 1972; Hohner 1981)

Notes. Recorded from ‘Halicia’ and ‘Carpathian Foothills’ without precision (Łomnicki 1884; Mazur 2002)