Perapion (Perapion) violaceum violaceum (Kirby)

Apion violaceum Kirby, 1808

Records. ČER IFR KHM KYI LWI ODE POL* RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK [Nowicki 1864: 33; Weise 1876: 108; Łomnicki 1884: 34; Łomnicki 1886: 234; Cherkunov 1889: 191; Kulikowski 1897: 212; Łomnicki 1905: 85; Penecke 1928: 382; Tveritina 1953: 64; Khrolinsky 1965: 113; Solodovnikova 1965a: 8; 1965b: 338; 1966: 333; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 302; Kubisz et al. 1998: 266; Mazur 2002: 221; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Nazarenko 2006b: 163; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 151; Nazarenko 2012d: 190; Nazarenko 2012g: 51; Nazarenko 2013b: 17].

Distribution. Palaearctic (excluding Middle Asia) (Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Pyriatyn uezd, 5.vi.1913; Sumy Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Shostka, Kurnakov leg., 16.vi.1940; 3 spec. (ZIN) idem, 26.vi.1940

Biology. Wetlands, ruderal habitats. Adults occur in IV–X (Dieckmann 1977). On Rumex alpinus (Penecke 1928); R. pulcher (Hoffmann 1958); R. acetosa, R. conglomeratus, R. crispus, R. obtusifolius, R. patientia (Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); R. alpestris, R. maritimus, R. sanguineus (Dieckmann 1977); R. acetosella, R. confertus, R. longifolius (Polygonaceae) (Dedyukhin 2012).