Pseudostenapion simum (Germar)

Apion simum Germar, 1817

Records. CRI* ČER ČRK IFR KHM KHR KYI LWI RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK ŽIT [Łomnicki 1884: 35; Cherkunov 1889: 191; Rybiński 1903b: 154; Łomnicki 1905: 85; Penecke 1928: 382; Khrolinsky 1965: 112; Solodovnikova & Peeva 1978: 77; Solodovnikova 1986: 68; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 302; Kubisz et al. 1998: 266; Mazur 2002: 221; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 45; Nazarenko 2009b: 499; Nazarenko 2009c: 40; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 153; Nazarenko 2012d: 190; Nazarenko 2012g: 51; Nazarenko 2013a: 109].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, North Africa (Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Cherkasy Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) ca. 12 km N Kaniv, right bank, quarry, 1 st terrace, meadow, V. M. Stovbchatyi leg., 12.viii.2004 ; Crimea: 1 spec. (FRC) Sudak Distr., Hambal Mt. Range, watershed of Indol and Suuk-Su Rivers, mixed forest, R. V. Filimonov leg., 10.v.2012 .

Biology. Forest edge, shrublands, xerothermic slopes. Adults occur in V–X (Dieckmann 1977). On Hypericum perforatum (Penecke 1928; Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977; Nazarenko 2009c); H. hirsutum, H. humifusum (Hypericaceae) (Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977).