Stenopterapion (Stenopterapion) intermedium (Eppelsheim)

Apion intermedium Eppelsheim, 1875

Records. CRI ČRK DNI DON* KHM KHR* KYI LUG* LWI RIV TER VIN VOL [Smreczyński 1929: 81; Sobol 1954: 316; Kryshtal 1959: 80; Solodovnikova 1963c: 155; 1965a: 9; 1966: 333; 1968: 30; Petrukha et al. 1988: 142; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 303; Kubisz et al. 1998: 265; Mazur 2002: 222; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Alonso- Zarazaga 2011a: 171].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, Iran, Kazakhstan, Siberia (Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (ZIN) Bakhchisarai Distr., Kuibyshevo, B.A. Korotyaev leg., 6.v.1990 ;

Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Steppe along Nyrkovo-Vyemka, Arnoldi leg., 8.vi.1939 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 4.vi.1939 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Zmiiv Distr., Gaidary, Biological station, Arnoldi leg., 9.ix.1926 ; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Provallya, Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 29.viii.1928 .

Biology. Forest edge, xerothermic grasslands, agricultural habitats. Adults occur in V–IX (Dieckmann 1977). On Fabaceae: Onobrychis viciifolia (Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); O. arenaria (Dieckmann 1977) .