Larinus (Larinus) latus (Herbst)

Curculio latus Herbst, 1783

Records. CRI* DNI* KHE* KHR MYK* ODE [Kulikovsky 1897: 198; Shapiro 1930: 142; Mazur 2002: 230; Gültekin & Alonso-Zarazaga 2015: 2–3].

Distribution. SE Europe, West and Central Asia, Australia (introduced) (Baytenov 1974; Otta & Abdel- Moniem 2006; Gültekin & Fremuth 2013)

Material examined. Crimea: 1f (ZMUM) Bakhchisaray District, Pishchane, R. V. Doroshenko leg., 20.vi.2011 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) environs of Kharkiv City, I. Krynitsky leg., 1827 ; Odesa Prov.: 2 spec. (SIZK) Reny Distr., shore of Dervent Lake, on flower heads of Onopordum acanthium, S.V. Volovnik leg., 15.vii.2009 ; 1 spec. (KUMN) “ Southern Podolia ”, V. G. Besser leg., 1827 .

Biology. Grasslands. Adults occur in V–VII. Oligophagous on Asteraceae: Cardueae and Arctoteae (Briese 1996a).