Taeniapion urticarium urticarium (Herbst)

Curculio urticarium Herbst, 1784

Curculio vernale Paykull, 1792

Records. CRI ČER ČNG ČRK DNI DON* IFR KHM KHR KYI LUG LWI ODE POL* RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK ZAP [Chernay 1854: 170, 239; Miller 1868: 24; Lindemann 1871: 196; Łomnicki 1884: 34; Łomnicki 1886: 231; Hormuzaki 1888: 155; Cherkunov 1889: 191; Kulikowski 1897: 212; Rybiński 1903b: 153; Łomnicki 1905: 83; Wagner 1918: 91; Penecke 1928: 380; Kryshtal 1949: 179; Medvedev 1950c: 99; Arnoldi 1953: 192; Medvedev 1953a: 78; Kryshtal 1956: 321; Tveritina 1956b: 138; Medvedev 1963: 78; Solodovnikova 1963c: 155; Khrolinsky 1965: 109; Solodovnikova 1965a: 8; 1965b: 337; 1966: 333; 1968: 30; 1970: 81; Solodovnikova & Talicky 1972: 787; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 302; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Kubisz et al. 1998: 266; Mazur 2002: 222; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 52; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Nazarenko 2005a: 90; Nazarenko 2006b: 163; Nazarenko 2007b: 231; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 44; Nazarenko 2009c: 41; Kravchenko 2010: 59; Nazarenko 2010d: 82; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 162; Nazarenko 2012g: 51; Nazarenko 2013b: 18].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, Siberia, Russian Far East, Japan, North Africa (Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Cherkasy Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Zolotonosha, Kizericki leg., vi.1907 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) Uman, A. V. Ushinsky leg., 1.v.1924; Chernihiv Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN), Pryluky, Artobolewski leg., 18–73 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Tschernig., Mazarski; 1 spec. (ZIN) Novgorod-Siverskyi, Leontiev leg., 20.vii.1983 ; Chernivtsi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Chernivtsi, Gusarov leg., 1.vi.1988 ; Crimea: 1 spec. (ZIN) Yalta, A. Bazhenov leg., 10.vii.1899 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Simferopol, Salgir River valley, A. Bazhenov leg., 15.vii.1899 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 17.vii.1899; 1 spec. (ZIN) Simferopol, Kiritschenko leg., 24.iv.1907 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Tschumakari, Kiritschenko leg., 11.v.1907 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Simferopol, Dzhalman, G. Kachowski leg. ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Tavel, Kirichenko leg., 6.v; Donetsk Prov .: 1 spec. (ZIN) Netrius River, Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 30.v.1939 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 23.v.1939 ; Ivano-Frankivsk Prov.: 3 spec. (ZIN) Gorodenka Distr., Glushkiv vill, A. Kirejtshuk leg., 8.vi.1976 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 20.v.1927; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Konstantinograd, Th.Lukjanovich, 24.v.1925 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Kharkiv, Arnoldi leg., 29.iv.1919 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Kharkiv, Lisopark, Kirejtshuk leg., 9.v.1975 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Zmiiv Distr., Gaidary, N. Yunakov leg., 10.vi.2000 ; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 28.iv.1911 ; 3 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi Distr., Bahovitsa, Sainog leg., 14.vi.1896 ; Kyiv Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Kyiv; 2 spec. (SIZK) Kyiv, Pushcha-Votytsia, 27.iv.1918 ; 3 spec. (ZIN) idem, A. Yakovlev leg.; 1 spec. (SIZK) Kyiv, Holosiiv forest, on Urtica, A. Bogachev leg., 17.vi.1958 ; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Provallya, Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 29.iii.1928 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 16.v.1928; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 15.vi.1928; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 18.vi.1928; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 20.vi.1928; 4 spec. (ZIN) idem, 14.vi.1929; 1 spec. (ZIN) Stanitsa Luhanska, Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 27.v.1928 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 12.vi.1928; 1 spec. (ZIN) Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 23.v.1928 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 13.v.1929; 3 spec. (ZIN) Luhansk env., A. Likhosherstov leg., 12.v.1928 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Provalsky Step, 15 km E ot Sverdlovsk, D. R. Kasparyan leg., 6.v.1974 ; Odesa Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Lesnoye, D. R. Kasparyan leg., 13.vi.1974 ; Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, D. Ogloblin leg., 29.iv.1911 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava env., Th. Lukjanovich leg., 18.v.1924 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 30.iv.1926; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 8.v.1926; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 18.vi.1926; Sumy Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Shostka env., Kurnakov leg., 18.v.1940 .

Biology. Forests, floodlands, ruderal habitats. Adults occur in IV–X (Dieckmann 1977). On Urticaceae: Urtica pilulifera (Hoffmann 1958); U. urens (Hoffmann 1958; Solodovnikova 1963a; Smreczyński 1965); U. dioica (Kryshtal 1956; Hoffmann 1958; Solodovnikova 1963a; Khrolinsky 1965; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977; Mazur 2002; Nazarenko 2009c).