Hypera (Dapalinus) meles (Fabricius)

Curculio meles Fabricius, 1792

Records. CRI ČER ČNG ČRK DNI DON IFR KHE KHM KHR KYI LWI POL RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK [Nowicki 1864: 35; 1865: 35; Łomnicki 1866: 7; 1870: 81; Nowicki 1873: 35; Łomnicki 1884: 30; Cherkunov 1889: 188; Łomnicki 1886: 203; Rybiński 1903b: 144; Łomnicki 1905: 73; Penecke 1928: 361; Shapiro 1930: 142; Petrukha 1949: 119; Kryshtal 1949: 175; Nemyrovska 1954: 91; Tveritina 1956: 137; Kryshtal 1959: 76; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Kubisz et al. 1998: 271; Nazarenko et al. 1998c: 117; Mazur 2002: 230; Nazarenko 2006b: 165; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 47; Nazarenko 2009b: 500; 2012a: 219; 2012f: 52].

Distribution. Palaearctic, Nearctic Region (introduced) (Skuhrovec 2013)

Material examined. 63 spec. (DMLU, KUMN, SIZK, NSPU, ZMUK) from Cherkasy, Crimea, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Lviv, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zakarpatska regions

Biology. Meadows, grasslands. Adults occur in V–VIII. Oligophagous on Fabaceae: Trifolium pratense, T. repens, T. arvense, T. incarnatum, T. dubium, Lothus corniculatus, Medicago sativa, M. lupulina, M. falcata (Scherf 1964)