Archarius (Archarius) crux (Fabricius)

Curculio crux Fabricius, 1776

Records. CRI ČER DNI IFR KHM KHR KYI LWI RIV TER VIN VOL ZAK ŽIT [Andrzeiowski 1823: 98; Nowicki 1858: 16; 1864: 37; 1865: 37; Belke 1866: 504; Łomnicki 1868: 137; Miller 1868: 27; Łomnicki 1870: 82; Nowicki 1873: 36; Lindeman 1871: 198; Łomnicki 1875: 177; 1882: 251; 1886: 214; Cherkunov 1889: 192; Rybiński 1903b: 150; Łomnicki 1905: 79; Penecke 1928: 3 74; Pyatakova 1930: 333; Ter-Minasian 1956: 439; Solodovnikova & Pejeva 1978: 76; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Kubisz et al. 1998: 272; Mazur 2002: 227; Nazarenko & Kravchenko 2002: 39].

Distribution. Palaearctic (excluding Middle East, North Africa) (Caldara 2013a)

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (KUMN) Steven leg.; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 15 km S Kharkiv, env. of Konstantovka [former Konstantinovka], Donets-Zakharzhevski leg. ; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) S of Kyiv, between stations Pidhirtsi and Pomankiv, sweeping along railway embankment, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 23.iv.2001 ;

Ternopil Prov.: 1 spec. (KpC) Medobory, J.I. Kapelukh leg.

Biology. Forests, shrublands, floodplains. Adults occur in IV–IX. In galls induced by sawflies ( Hymenoptera) on Salix spp. ( Salicaceae) (Ter-Minasian 1956; Dieckmann 1988)