Cyphocleonus dealbatus (Gmelin)

Curculio dealbatus Gmelin, 1790

Curculio tigrinus Panzer, 1789 [HN].

Curculio marmoratus Fabricius, 1792

Records. CRI ČER ČNG ČRK DNI DON IFR KHE* KHM* KHR KRO* KYI LUG LWI MYK* ODE POL RIV SUM* TER VOL ZAK ZAP* ŽIT* [Hummel 1827: 42; Nowicki 1858: 17, 1873: 35; Łomnicky 1870: 11; 1875: 176, 1884: 31; Hormuzaki 1888: 153; Shishkin 1914: 48; Kuzmin & Lindeman 1928: 42–43; Lukjanovitch 1928: 248; Penecke 1928: 358; Shapiro 1940a: 52; Roubal 1941: 168; Kryshtal 1949: 54; Arnoldi 1956: 296, 338; Globova 1958: 164; Tveritina 1962: 38–39, 139; Medvedev & Solodovnikova 1974: 100; Kubisz et al. 1998: 270; Mazur 2002: 227; Sumarokov 2009: 177; Nazarenko 2009b: 500; Kravchenko 2010: 60; Kravets 2016: 124].

Distribution. Palaearctic (excluding north) (Meregalli & Fremuth 2013).

Material examined. 270 specimens (ZIN, SIZK, KUMN, ZMUK NSPU, IMC, SKC, YKC) from 19 provinces were studied. Kherson Prov.: 1 spec. (IMK) Kherson, 12.v.1956; 2 spec. (IMC) Tsiurupynsk env., Rafalsky leg., 2.x.1966 ; 1 spec. (IMC) idem, 20.xi.1966; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets-Polilskyi Distr., Bagovitsya, Grum-Grzhimajlo leg., 21–23.vi.1895 ; Kropyvnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Holovanivske Forestry, 9.v.1965 ; 1 spec. (IMK) Kropyvnytskyi Distr., Velyka Viska, 14.v ; 1 spec. (IMK) idem, 12.v; 1 spec. (IMK) Olexandriya, 1.viii ; 3 spec. (SIZK) Dolinska Distr., I.Pisnya leg., viii.1983 ; 1 spec. (ZMUK) Znamyanka Distr., Chorny Forest, Rohocha leg., 17.vi.1953 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) Vesely Bokovenky; Mykolaiv Prov. : 2 spec. (SIZK) Voznesensk Distr., Trykraty; 1 spec. (SIZK) Pershotravneve Distr., Chausovo, S. V. Volovnik leg., 24.iv.1983 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) Kryve Ozero, S. V. Volovnik leg., on Artemisia absinthium, 3.viii.1983 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) Voznesensk Distr., on the bottom of irrigative channel, 3.vi.1966 ; Sumy Prov.: 13 spec. (ZIN) Sumy env., Benois leg., 1891; 1 spec. (SIZK) Trostyanetz Distr., Neskuchayivske Forestry, 20.vi.1952 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) Trostyanets, Potarivka gully, 29.vi.1953 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) Akhtyrka Distr., 20.vi.1952 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) Lebedyn Distr., Lifine, Goncharenko leg., 15.vi.1953 ; 1 spec. (ZMUN) Hlukhiv Distr., Bereza, P.N. Sheshurak leg., 13.vii.2005 ;

Zaporizhia Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Kamyanka-Dniprovska, vi.1977; 1 spec. (SIZK) Rozyvka Distr., Kamyani Mohyly Reserve, on Artemisia austriaca, S.V. Volovnik leg., 15.viii.1982; 2 spec. (SIZK) idem, on Tanacetum, 27.vi.1980; 3 spec. (SIZK) Prymorsk Distr., Obytochna Spit, curtain of Artemisia in the marine coast shore, S. V. Volovnik leg., 26.viii.1982; 1 spec. (SIZK) Melitopol, forest park, on Melilotus, S.V. Volovnik leg., 8.vii.1977; 1 spec. (SSC) Zaporizhia, Khortytsia Island, 12.vii.1999; 1 spec. (SSC) Melitopol, S. Suchkov leg., 17.iv.2000; 1 spec. (YKC) Melitopol Distr., Chapayivka, Yu. V. Karmyshev leg., 30.vi.2013; 1 spec. (SIZK) Melitopol Distr., edge of Staroberdyansky Forest, 23.vi.1965; Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Zhytomyr, Proschiga leg., 9.v.1925; 1 spec. (IMC) Malin, Bogachev leg., 5.ix.1944; 1 spec. (IMC) Malin, Bogachev leg., under Artemisia and Achillea, 10.x.1944; 4 spec. (IMC) Malin, sands, under Artemisia, Bogachev leg., 23.x.1944; 1 spec. (IMC) Malin, pine park, Bogachev leg., 13.viii.1944.

Biology. Grasslands, forests, sandy and ruderal habitats. Adults occur in IV–XI. Oligophagous on Asteraceae: Achillea millefoilium, Tripleurospermum maritimum subsp. inodorum, Andryala integrifolia, Centaurea spp., Artemisia spp. (Keppen 1882; Bargagli 1884; Gushcho 1954; Hoffmann 1963; Smreczyński 1968; Volovnik 1989).