Lepyrus palustris (Scopoli)

Curculio palustris Scopoli, 1763

Lepyrus palustris palustris Scopoli, 1763

Curculio colon Linnaeus, 1771

Lepyrus palustris asperatus Schaufuss, 1882

Lepyrus palustris flavidulus Zumpt, 1936

Records. CRI ČER ČNG ČRK IFR KHE KHM KHR KYI LUG LWI ODE RIV TER VIN VOL ZAK ŽIT [Andrzejowski 1823: 98; Belke 1853: 430; 1858: 362; Nowicki 1858: 17; 1864: 34; 1865: 34; Belke 1866: 505; Łomnicki 1868: 137; Miller 1868: 24; Łomnicki 1870: 82; Nowicki 1870: 14; Lindeman 1871: 314; Nowicki 1873: 35; Łomnicki 1875: 177; 1877a: 150; 1877c: 188; 1884: 31; Hormuzaki 1888: 153; Cherkunov 1889: 189; Łomnicki 1905: 72; Ksenzhopolskij 1913: 75; Penecke 1928: 357; Medvedev 1929: 17; Roubal 1941: 196; Medvedev 1950b: 69; 1950c: 100; Medvedev 1953b: 1132; Kryshtal 1956: 306; Globova 1958: 165; Apostolov & Maltsev 1984: 28; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Nazarenko et al. 1998a: 112; 1998b: 119; Nazarenko et al. 1998c: 108; Nazarenko et al. 1999: 532; Gontarenko & Nazarenko 2000: 43; Nazarenko & Moroz 2000a: 89; 2000b: 42; 2001: 40; Sheshurak & Nazarenko 2002: 122; Mazur 2002: 231; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 53; Nazarenko 2005a: 92; 2006b: 165; 2009b: 500; Kravchenko 2010: 60; Nazarenko 2010d: 87; 2012f: 52; 2013a: 109].

Distribution. Holarctic: Central Europe, Siberia, Nearctic Region (nominative ssp.), SE Europe ( ssp. asperatus Schaufuss), East Europe, Middle Asia, West Siberia ( ssp. flavidulus Zumpt) (Alonso-Zarazaga 2013)

Material examined. 146 spececimens (CHSU, DMLU, SIZK, ZIN, NSPU, ZMUK).

Biology. Shrublands, swamps, floodplains. Adults occur III–IX. On Salicaceae (Mazur 2002) . Larva feeds on roots, imago on leaves

Notes. L.palustris palustris and L.palustris asperatus are known in Ukraine but Alonso-Zarazaga (2013a) recorded only L. palustris flavidulus . Examination of comprehensive material from Ukraine revealed three sympatric variations of L. palustris . All of those correspond to L. palustris flavidulus (Zumpt 1936) . Some specimens from Dunaiski Plavni Nature Reserve (Odesa Prov.) have indistinct or hardly visible lateral strip. Apperantly, it is intermediate form sharing characters of both L. palustris asperatus and L. palustris flavidulus .