Ellescus bipunctatus (Linnaeus)

Curculio bipunctatus Linnaeus, 1758

Records. ČER ČRK IFR KHM KYI LWI RIV TER VIN VOL ZAK [Nowicki 1864: 36; Król 1877: 56; Łomnicki 1884: 32; Łomnicki 1886: 215; Cherkunov 1889: 192; Rybiński 1903b: 151; Łomnicki 1905: 80; Penecke 1928: 375; Roubal 1941: 181; Tveritina 1959: 184; Globova 1963: 113; Mazur 2002: 229; Nazarenko & Kravchenko 2002: 39; Nazarenko 2014c: 46].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Siberia, Russian Far East, Japan, North America (Caldara 2013a).

Material examined. Ivano-Frankivsk Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Gorgany, Yaitse-Perehinske (=Yaiko- Perehinske), V. M. Lazorko leg., 18.vi.1938 ; Lviv Prov.: 5 spec. (SIZK) Zolochiv, Lysa Hora, V. M. Lazorko leg., 22.v.1938 ; Zakarpatska Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Rakhiv Distr., Yasynya, Lazeschina River, 800 m, Zaslavsky leg., 13.v.1958 .

Biology. Forests, shrublands. Adults occur in IV–VIII (Dieckmann 1988). On Salicaceae: Salix viminalis (Hoffmann 1954; Smreczyński 1972); S. aurita, S. caprea (Hoffmann 1954; Smreczyński 1972; Dieckmann 1988); S. cinerea (Hoffmann 1954; Smreczyński 1972; Lohse 1983h; Dieckmann 1988); S. fragilis, S. pentandra (Isayev 2007); S. dasyclados, S. myrsinifolia, S. purpurea, S. rosmarinifolia (Dedyukhin 2012) .