Pissodes (Pissodes) pini pini (Linnaeus)

Curculio pini Linnaeus, 1758

Records. ČER DNI IFR KHM KHR KYI LWI ODE RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK ŽIT [Chernay 1854: 172; Nowicki 1858: 17; 1864: 36; 1865: 36; Belke 1866: 505; Lindeman 1871: 195; Nowicki 1873: 35; Łomnicki 1884: 31; 1886: 208; Cherkunov 1889: 189; Rybiński 1903b: 144; Łomnicki 1905: 73; Ksenzhopolskij 1913: 23; Shishkin 1914: 48; Penecke 1928: 362; Shapiro 1930: 142; Zagajkevich 1958: 74; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Mazur 2002: 237; Nazarenko & Kravchenko 2002: 38; Sinjugina & Lapin 2002: 132; Nazarenko 2008b: 143; Mateleshko et al. 2009: 489; Nazarenko 2009b: 501; Timochko et al. 2009: 599; Nazarenko 2013b: 27].

Distribution. Palaearctic (excluding Asia Minor, Middle East, North Africa) (Alonso-Zarazaga 2013)

Material examined. Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 15 km S Kharkiv, Konstantovka [former Konstantinovka], Donets-Zakharzhevskij leg.; 1 spec. (KUMN) env . Kharkiv, Shkaff leg.; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) env . Kyiv; 1 spec. (SIZK) Pushcha-Voditsa, 17.v.1918; 3 spec. (SIZK) idem, 13.vi.1918; 2 spec. (SIZK) idem, glade, on young pine, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 10, 18.viii.2006; 2 spec. (SIZK) Borodianka Distr., near Spartak railway station, A. V. Prokhorov leg., 28.v.2001 ; Odesa Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Valegotsulovo, Anan’jevskij ujezd, 9.vi.1921; Rivne Prov.: 2 spec. (SIZK) Klesiv Distr., 9 km NE Klesiv, Somyne Lake, Karasynske Forestry, under bark of pine stub, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 14.vi.2008 ; Sumy Prov.: 5 spec. (SIZK) Desniansko-Starohutskyi National Park, Stara Huta, q. 66, 93, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 21.vi.2006 ; Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Schitomir, G. Proschiga leg., 12.vi.1923; 1 spec. (SIZK) Troyany env., A. V. Prokhorov leg., 14–16.vi.2003; Zakarpatska Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) ca. 15 km NE Mizhhiria, Synevyrska Poliana, Kanchskyi Potik River, on Picea abies, N. Yunakov leg., 03.vii.1997 .

Biology. Coniferous forests. Adults occur in V–VIII. On Pinus sylvestris, P. cembra (Pinaceae) (Smreczyński 1972)