Grypus equiseti (Fabricius)

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Curculio equiseti Fabricius, 1775

Records. ČER ČNG IFR KHM KHR KYI LWI POL RIV TER VIN VOL ZAK [Chernay 1854: 244; Nowicki 1864: 36; 1865: 36; Łomnicki 1866: 7; Lindeman 1871: 195; Nowicki 1873: 35; Łomnicki 1884: 31; 1886: 209; Cherkunov 1889: 189; Rybiński 1903b: 144; Łomnicki 1905: 73; Penecke 1928: 363; Shapiro 1930: 143; Roubal 1941: 179; Dieckmann 1986; Mazur 2002: 229; Kravchenko 2010: 59; Nazarenko 2010d: 86; Sirenko 2013: 165].

Distribution. Holarctic (Caldara 2011)

Material examined. Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 7 km S Zmiiv, Gaidary, A.F. Bartenev leg., 27.v.1988 ;

Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 16 km NW Mirgorod, 1 km S Romodan, marsh, on Equisetum arvense, T. Vodyanitskaya leg., 07.viii.1997 ; Volyn Prov.: 1 spec. (KrC) Shatsk, dry meadows, A.M. Kravchenko leg., 30.v.2010 ; Zakarpatska Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 35 km NNE Uzhhorod, env. of Ruskyi Mochar, forest boundary, meadow, V. V. Mirutenko leg., 03.vi.1996 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) env. of Kolochava, Synevyr National Park, A. V. Parkhomenko leg., 31.v.–14.vi.2013 .

Biology. Floodplains, meadows, marshes, swamps. Adults occur in V–VIII. On Equisetum palustre, E. arvense (Equisetaceae) (Dieckmann 1986).