Trichosirocalus troglodytes (Fabricius)

Curculio troglodytes Fabricius, 1787

Records. CRI* ČER ČNG ČRK DNI DON* IFR KHE* KHM KHR KYI KHR* LUG* LWI POL RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK ŽIT* [Chernay 1854: 246; Nowicki 1864: 38; Miller 1868: 27; Król 1877: 57; Łomnicki 1884: 33; Łomnicki 1886: 223; Cherkunov 1889: 194; Hormuzaki 1891: 173; Rybiński 1903b: 148; Łomnicki 1905: 77; Penecke 1928: 368; Shapiro 1930: 142; Kryshtal 1949: 177; Tveritina 1956b: 137; Tveritina 1959: 185; Endrődi 1969: 336; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 307; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Kubisz et al. 1998: 275; Mazur 2002: 241; Nazarenko & Kravchenko 2002: 38; Sheshurak & Nazarenko 2002: 123; Colonnelli 2004a: 65; Colonnelli 2004b; Nazarenko 2005a: 94; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 47; Nazarenko 2009b: 502; Nazarenko 2010d: 90; Nazarenko 2012g: 54; Colonnelli 2013: 204; Nazarenko 2013b: 29; Zhuravel et al. 2016: 12].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, Iran, Kazakhstan, North Africa; introduced in North America (Colonnelli 2013).

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (ZIN) Belbek railway station, N. Kuznetsov leg., 13.v.1897 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 19.v.1897; 1 spec. (ZIN) Kerch, Jacentkowski leg., 25.iv.1900 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Agarmish, Staryi Krym, Kirichenko leg., 8.vii.1905; 2 spec. (ZIN) Agarmish, Kirichenko leg., 5.vi.1906 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Tamak, Kiritschenko leg., 13.v.1907 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Alushta, Kiritschenko leg., 5.vi.1907 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Simferopol, Kiritschenko leg., 27.vi.1907 ; Donetsk Prov.: 6 spec. (ZIN) Tetyanivka, Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 2.vi.1937 ; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 25.vi.1938; 1 spec. (ZIN) Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 25.vi.1938 ; 2 spec. (ZIN) Yarova, Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 2.vi.1937 ; 3 spec. (ZIN) Netrius River near Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 30.v.1939 ; Ivano-Frankivsk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kolomyja, Zaslavsky leg., 20.v.1958 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kharkiv env., S.K. Zaporozhtsev leg.; 1 spec. (ZIN) Zmiiv Distr., Gaidary, Biological Station, Arnoldi leg., 28.v.1918 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 7.vi.1918; 3 spec. (ZIN) idem, 12.vi.1918; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 11.vii.1918; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, ix.1926; 2 spec. (ZIN) Balaklia Distr., nr Protopopivka, bank of Siversky Donets River, N. Yunakov leg., 27.vi.2000 ; Kherson Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Askania-Nova Nature Reserve, Medvedev leg., 21.v ; 2 spec. (ZIN) Askania-Nova Nature Reserve, Malyshev leg., 25.v.1911 ; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 7.iv.1911 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 9.v.1911; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 23.v.1911;

Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Starobelsk, Silantjev leg., 15.vi.1898; 1 spec. (ZIN) Luhansk env., V. Talicky leg., 14.v.1927; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 28.v.1927; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 25.vi.1927; 1 spec. (ZIN) Provallya, Talickiy leg, 14.vi.1929 ; Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, D. Ogloblin leg., 2.viii.1915; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 6.iv.1924; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava env., Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 20.v.1922; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 3.v.1924; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 26.vi.1925; 4 spec. (ZIN) Mgar, 27.v.1913; 4 spec. (ZIN) Kremenchuk, Verbki, 30.v.1914 ; Vinnytsia Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Mogyliv-Podilskyi Distr., Verkhivka, A. Chekini leg., 8.vi.1901 ;

Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Zhytomyr env., Birulya leg., 9.vi.1897; 4 spec. (ZIN) idem, 19.vi.1897; 1 spec. (ZIN) Novohrad-Volynsky, Mikhailov, 16.iv.1913 .

Biology. Forest edge, meadows, xerothermic grasslans, sands, ruderal habitats. Adults occur in IV–VIII. On Plantaginaceae: Plantago lanceolata (Penecke 1928; Hoffmann 1954; Dieckmann 1972b; Smreczyński 1974; Colonnelli 2004a); P. lagopus (Colonnelli 2004a) .