Microplontus rugulosus (Herbst)

Curculio rugulosus Herbst, 1795

Rhynchaenus chrysanthemi Gyllenhal, 1827

Ceutorhynchus figuratus Gyllenhal, 1837

Records. CRI ČER DON* IFR KHE KHM KHR* KYI LUG* LWI POL RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK [Schoenherr 1845: 153; Nowicki 1864: 38; Łomnicki 1884: 33; Cherkunov 1889: 194; Rybiński 1903b: 148; Łomnicki 1904: 369; Penecke 1928: 370; Kryzhanovskaya 1975: 34; Kryzhanovskaya 1979: 173; Korotyaev 1980: 226; Isayev 1994: 64; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 307; Kubisz et al. 1998: 275; Mazur 2002: 233; Colonnelli 2004a: 64; Colonnelli 2004b; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 47; Nazarenko 2010a: 704; Nazarenko 2010d: 87; Colonnelli 2013: 194; Nazarenko 2013b: 24].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, Levant, Iran, Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, West Siberia, North Africa (Colonnelli 2013).

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (ZIN) Simferopol Distr., Dzhalman, G. Kachowski leg., 18.v.1911 ;

Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 28.v.1939; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Konstantinograd, Th.Lukjanovitsh leg., 27.v.1926; 1 spec. (ZIN) Zakomelskaya, Arnoldi leg., 28.vi.1939; 1 spec. (ZIN) Izyum, S. V. Winter leg., 11.v.1990; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 28.iv.1908; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Provallya, Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 25.vi.1928; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 14.vi.1929; Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, D. Ogloblin leg., 14.v.1912; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, Svinkovka, D. Ogloblin leg., 1913; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava env., Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 22.vi.1926; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava D. Ogloblin leg., 17.v.1927 .

Biology. Meadows, ruderal habitats. Adults occur in IV–VI. On Asteraceae: Anthemis cotula (Penecke 1928; Dieckmann 1972b; Smreczyński 1974); Chamaemelum nobile (Hoffmann 1954; Smreczyński 1974); A. arvensis (Hoffmann 1954; Dieckmann 1972b; Smreczyński 1974); Matricaria chamomilla, Tripleurospermum inodorum (Hoffmann 1954; Dieckmann 1972b; Smreczyński 1974; Kryzhanovskaya 1977); Cota tinctoria, M. discoidea (Dieckmann 1972b; Smreczyński 1974)—“ M. rugulosus auct.”; Artemisia absinthium, A. vulgaris (Hoffmann 1954; Dieckmann 1972b; Smreczyński 1974; Isayev 2007)—“ M. figuratus auct. ”.