Sibinia (Sibinia) tibialis (Gyllenhal)

Sybines tibialis Gyllenhal, 1835

Records. CRI DON* KHE* KHM KHR* KYI LWI TER VIN ZAP ŽIT [Arnoldi et al. 1965: 605; Caldara 1985: 38; Dieckmann 1988: 427; Isayev 1994: 42; Mazur 2002: 239; Caldara 2004a; Nazarenko 2006b: 165; Parkhomenko et al. 2009: 122; Nazarenko 2012g: 54; Caldara 2013a: 161; Nazarenko 2013a: 109].

Distribution. Europe, Levant, Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, Siberia, Russian Far East (Caldara 2013a).

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (ZIN) Aktash Lake, V. Ivanov leg., 9.vii.1991 ; Donetsk Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Tetyanivka, Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 26.v.1939 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Steppe along Nyrkovo-Vyemka, Arnoldi leg., 8.vi.1939 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Savyntsi, Arnoldi leg., 23.vi.1939 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Zakomelskaya, Arnoldi leg., 28.vi.1939 ; Kherson Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Aleshki, P. Egorov leg., 10.vi.1927 ; 5 spec. (ZIN) idem, 16.vi.1927 .

Biology. Grasslands, forest edge. Adults occur in V–IX (Dieckmann 1988). On Caryophyllaceae: Minuartia setacea (Hoffmann 1954; Smreczyński 1972); Silene otites, S. tatarica (Smreczyński 1972; Lohse 1983h; Dieckmann 1988); S. borysthenica (Isayev 2007) .