Curculio rubidus (Gyllenhal)

Balaninus rubidus Gyllenhal, 1836

Records. ČER ČNG IFR KYI LWI SUM TER ŽIT [Cherkunov 1889: 192; Rybiński 1903b: 150; Łomnicki 1905: 79; Ter-Minasian 1956: 438–439; Mazur 2002: 227; Sheshurak & Nazarenko 2002: 123; Nazarenko, 2006b: 165; Nazarenko 2009c: 42; Nazarov & Sheshurak 2009: 46; Kravchenko 2010: 61; Nazarenko 2012a: 219; 2012f: 52].

Distribution. West Palaearctic (excluding south) (Caldara 2013a)

Material examined. Chernihiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) Nizhyn, Sperk leg.; Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 7 km SWW Sviatohirsk, 2 km N Bohorodychne, Teplinskij forest, near forest lake, L. V. Arnoldi & A.K. Chistyakova leg., 22.vi.1964 ; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Rusanovskie Sady, left bank of Desenka, Urochyshche Horbachykha, sweeping, bushland along road, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 4.viii.2000 ; Sumy Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Lebedyn Distr., between Druzhne and Stepove, forest belt on the border of reserve, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 18.viii.2009 .

Biology. Forests. Imago occur in VII–IX. On Betula pendula (Betulaceae), Prunus spinosa and other fruit trees

( Rosaceae), Salix spp. ( Salicaceae) (Ter-Minasian 1956; Dieckmann 1988)