Cossonus (Cossonus) linearis (Fabricius)

Curculio linearis Fabricius, 1775

Records. CRI KHR KYI LUG LWI ODE POL RIV VOL ZAK ZAP* ŽIT [Krynicki 1832: 154; Belke 1866: 504; Cherkunov 1889: 195; Lukjanovich& Arnoldi 1951: 558; Folwachny 1973: 134; Mazur 2002: 227].

Distribution. Europe, Asia Minor, Kazakhstan, West Siberia, Mongolia

Material examined. Crimea: 8 spec. (ZMUN) Ağarmış Mt.Range, Molla-Çokrak source CR-12-106 sifting

leaf litter under Corylus, mixed forest N 45.02083 E 35.03208 446 m Yunakov leg., 12.v.2012; Donetsk: 1 spec. (KUMN) Donetsk, Kalmius River bank, V. V. Martynov leg., 9.vi.1997; 1 spec. (KUMN) 20 km NW Volodarskoye, Kamennyje Mogily Nature Reserve, in cow dung, V. V. Martynov leg., 3.v.1997; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 19 km W of Valki, Kolomak env., Krynicky leg., 1829; 1 spec. (KUMN) 23 km SE Balakleya, Protopopivka env., Siverskyi Donets River, S.I. Medvedev leg., 19.vi.1952; 1 spec. (KUMN) Izyum, Siversky Donets, flood-land forest, on Populus nigra, A.N. Drogvalenko leg., 3.vi.2000; 1 spec. (KUMN) Kharkiv, Pavlovo Pole A.N. Drogvalenko leg., 18.v.1996; 1 spec. (KUMN) Kharkiv, Novyye Doma A.N. Drogvalenko leg., 05/20/2001; 1 spec. (KUMN), idem, 1.vi.2002; 1 spec. (KUMN) 15 km S Kharkiv, Konstantovka env. [= Konstantinovka]. Donets- Zakharzhevsky leg.; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Kyiv, Urochysche Horbachykha, S bank of lake near dam, sifting leaf litter in Salix - Populus forest under old Populus sp., V.Yu. Nazarenko leg., 2.viii.2003, Zaporizhia Prov.: 1 spec. (FRC) Zaporizhia, S. Alexeenko leg., 25.v.–15.vi.2007

Biology. Floodplains and deciduous forests. Adults occur in V–VIII. Under bark of rotting Populus spp. and Salix spp.