Catapion seniculus (Kirby)

Apion seniculus Kirby, 1808

Apion palpebratum Gyllenhal, 1833

Records. CRI ČER ČRK DNI DON IFR KHM KHR KYI LUG* LWI MYK ODE POL RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK ZAP [Gyllenhal in Schoenherr 1833: 258; Schoenherr 1839: 380; Lindemann 1871: 295; Łomnicki 1884: 34; Łomnicki 1886: 231; Cherkunov 1889: 191; Hormuzaki 1889: 139; Łomnicki 1905: 84; Penecke 1928: 381; Shapiro 1930: 144; Kryshtal 1949: 180; Medvedev 1953a: 78; Tveritina 1953: 64; Sobol 1954: 316; Fasulati & Sikura 1956: 73; Kryshtal 1956: 321; Tveritina 1956b: 138; Kryshtal 1959: 81; Tveritina 1959: 182; Medvedev 1963: 78; Solodovnikova 1963c: 155; Khrolinsky 1965: 110; Solodovnikova 1965a: 9; 1965b: 337; 1966: 333; 1968: 30; 1970: 81; Petrukha et al. 1988: 143; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 302; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Kubisz et al. 1998: 265; Mazur 2002: 219; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Sumarokov 2004: 135; Nazarenko 2005a: 90; Nazarenko 2006b: 164; Nazarenko 2007b: 231; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 45; Nazarenko 2009c: 38; Sumarokov 2009: 176; Nazarenko 2010d: 82; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 164; Nazarenko 2012d: 190; Nazarenko 2012g: 50; Sumarokov & Nazarenko 2015: 17].

Distribution. Palearctic (Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (ZIN) Simferopol env., A. Bazhenov leg., 1898; 1 spec. (ZIN) Simferopol, Salgir River valley, A. Bazhenov leg., 15.vii.1899 ; 3 spec. (ZIN) Alupka, 1889; 1 spec. (ZIN) Aluschta, 1889; 1 spec. (ZIN) Yalta, A. Khaustov leg., 17.xi.2000; Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) left bank of Siverskyi Donets River, Arnoldi leg., 20.vi.1936; 1 spec. (ZIN) Banne, Siverskyi Donets River, Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 30.v.1937 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Yarova, meadows, Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 30.v.1937; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 2.vi.1937; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kharkiv env., S.N. Zaporozhtsev leg.; 1 spec. (ZIN) Spasov Skit, B. Iljin leg., 8.viii.1912; 1 spec. (ZIN) Kharkiv Distr., Zelenyi Hai, Kirejtshuk leg., 11.vi.1975 ; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 9.vii.1909; Kyiv Prov.: 6 spec. (ZIN) Bila Tserkva, G. Sobol leg., 20.vii.1951; 1 spec. (SIZK) Kyiv, left bank of Dnieper River, Horbachykha urochyshche, sweeping on psammophytic vegetation, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 18.viii.2004 ; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Stanitsa Luhanska, Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 13.v.1928; 1 spec. (ZIN) Provallya, Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 25.v.1928; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 13.vi.1928; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 14.vi.1929; Poltava Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, D. Ogloblin leg., 5.viii.1915; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, Th.Lukjanovitsh leg., 27.v.1924; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 30.viii.1925; 3 spec. (ZIN) idem, 6.viii.1926; 6 spec. (ZIN) idem, 15.viii.1927; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 1–2.vii.1924; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 28 (15). iv.1925; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 25.ix.1925; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 29.ix.1925; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 25.iv.1926; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 11.v.1926; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 18.vi.1926; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 20.vi.1926; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 8.viii.1926; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 20.v.1927; 8 spec. (ZIN) idem, 6.viii.1927; Zakarpatska Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Rakhiv Distr., Yasynya, meadow, 600 m, Zaslavsky leg., 31.v.1958 .

Biology. Meadows in forests, ruderal habitats. Adults occur in IV–XI (Dieckmann 1977). On Fabaceae: Trifolium incarnatum, Medicago sativa, Ononis spinosa ssp. procurrens (Hoffmann 1958); Melilotus officinalis (Hoffmann 1958; Solodovnikova 1963a); T. pratense (Hoffmann 1958; Solodovnikova 1963a; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); T. medium (Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); T. repens (Hoffmann 1958; Dieckmann 1977); Medicago falcata, Vicia cracca (Solodovnikova 1963a); T. fragiferum, T. hybridum (Dieckmann 1977); T. alpestre, T. montanum (Isayev 2007); T. lupinaster (Dedyukhin 2012) .