Hypera (Kippenbergia) arator (Linnaeus)

Curculio arator Linnaeus, 1758

Curculio polygoni Linnaeus, 1760

Phytonomus arator (Linnaeus, 1758)

Records. ČER ČRK ČNG DNI DON IFR KHE KHM KHR KRO KYI LWI ODE POL RIV SUM TER VIN VOL* ZAK ŽIT [Chernay 1854: 172; Belke 1858: 362 ( polygoni L. var. testacea); Nowicki 1858: 17; 1864: 35; 1865: 35; Lindeman 1871: 194; Nowicki 1873: 35; Łomnicki 1875: 176; 1884: 30; Hormuzaki 1888: 153; Cherkunov 1889: 188; Rybiński 1903b: 144; Łomnicki 1905: 73; Shishkin 1914: 48; Kulikowski 1897: 201; Penecke 1928: 362; Pyatakova 1930: 316; Shapiro 1930: 142; Shapiro 1940a: 52; Roubal 1941: 209; Kryshtal 1949: 175; Nemyrovska 1954: 91; Kryshtal 1956: 318; Tveritina 1956: 137; Kryshtal 1959: 77; Tveritina 1962: 40; Medvedev 1963: 76; Nazarenko 1995a: 70; Kubisz et al. 1998: 271; Nazarenko 1998a: 112; 1998b: 119; Nazarenko et al. 1998c: 116; Nazarenko et al. 1999: 532; Gontarenko & Nazarenko 2000: 46; Mazur 2002: 230; Nazarenko & Kravchenko 2002: 37; Sheshurak & Nazarenko 2002: 122; Nazarenko, 2006b: 165; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 47; Nazarenko 2009b: 500; Sumarokov 2009: 179; Nazarenko 2012f: 52; 2013b: 22; Nazarenko & Kobzar 2014: 528].

Distribution. Holarctic (Skuhrovec 2013)

Material examined. Ca. 100 specimens (GC, DMLU, KUMN, SIZK, NSPU, ZMUK). Biology. Meadows, floodplains, sandy habitats. Adults occur in III–X. Oligophagous on Caryophyllaceae

( Agrostemma, Cucubalus, Dianthus, Gypsophila, Lychnis, Minuartia, Moenchia, Oberna, Scleranthus, Silene,

Spergula, Spergularia and Stellaria) (Tempère & Péricart 1989; Mazur 2002; Skuhrovec 2005).