Noxius curtirostris (Mulsant & Rey) *

Tropideres curtirostris Mulsant & Rey, 1861

Records. CRI* KHR* [first record].

Distribution. West Palaearctic (Tryzna & Valentine 2011)

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (KUMN) 11 km SW of Feodosia, Koktebel, V. Gorbunov leg., 29.viii.1998 ; 1 spec. (KUMN) Karadag Nature Reserve, Kara-Agach Mt. Range, T. Vodyanitskaya leg., 22.vii.1997 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) Budy, Yu. Skrylnik leg., 03.v.2014 .

Biology. Mixed forests and shrublands. Adults occur in VI–IX. On dry twigs of Rubus, Genista, Pinus (Frieser 1981) .

Notes. Records from Luhansk Province (Nazarenko & Moroz 2001; Nazarenko et al. 2003) are based on misidentification of Exechesops foliatus .