Curculio venosus venosus (Gravenhorst)

Rhynchaenus venosus Gravenhorst, 1807

Records. ČER IFR KHM KHR KRO LUG LWI RIV TER VIN VOL ZAK ŽIT [Chernay 1854: 171, 245; Belke 1858: 362; Łomnicki 1905: 79; Penecke 1928: 374; Pyatakova 1930: 317; Shapiro 1930: 143; Roubal 1941: 190; Ter-Minasian 1956: 428; Zagajkevich 1958: 73; Turisz 2000: 127; Mazur 2002: 227; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 53].

Distribution. West Palaearctic (excluding Middle Asia, Middle East, West Siberia) (Caldara 2013a)

Material examined. Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 19 km E Izyum, env. of Jazkovka, Martynov leg., 29.vi.1996 ; Crimea: 1 spec. (KUMN) 18 km SE Simferopol, env. of Perevalne, on oak, N. Yunakov leg., 8.v.1997 ; 1 spec. (KUMN) Karadag Nature Reserve, Shekhovtsov leg., 12.vii.2009 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 14 km NW Izyum, Lysogorka, floodland forest on right bank of Siverskyi Donets River, on oak, A.N. Drogvalenko leg., 4.v.1991 ; 1 spec. (KUMN) 15 km S Kharkiv, env. of Konstantovka [former Konstantinovka], Donets- Zakharzhevski leg. ; 1 spec. (KUMN) 7 km S Zmiiv, Gaidary, Zolotarev leg., 7.vi.1977 ; 1 spec. (KUMN) W outskirt of Kharkiv, deciduous forest near Institute of Cryobiology, A.N. Drogvalenko leg., 16.vi.1996 ; 1 spec. (KUMN) Valki, Krynicki leg. , 1827; 1 spec. (KUMN) env . Kharkiv, Shkaff leg.; 1 spec. (KUMN) env . Kharkiv, Sperk leg., 1831.

Biology. Forests. Adults occur in V–IX. On Betula spp. ( Betulaceae), Quercus spp., Fagus spp. ( Fagaceae) (Ter-Minasian 1956; Dieckmann 1988)