Cionus tuberculosus (Scopoli)

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Curculio tuberculosus Scopoli, 1763

Curculio verbasci Fabricius, 1787

Records. CRI ČER DNI IFR KHM KHR KYI LWI POL* RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK ŽIT [Chernay 1854: 170; Nowicki 1864: 38; Król 1877: 56; Łomnicki 1884: 32; Łomnicki 1886: 218; Cherkunov 1889: 192; Rybiński 1903b: 152; Łomnicki 1905: 82; Ksenzhopolskij 1913: 76; Penecke 1928: 378; Shapiro 1930: 144; Wingelmüller 1937: 164; Endrődi 1970: 393; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 308; Gumovsky 1997: 55; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Kubisz et al. 1998: 276; Mazur 2002: 227; Caldara 2004a; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 47; Nazarenko 2010d: 85; Nazarenko 2012g: 52; Caldara 2013a: 124].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, Siberia (Caldara 2013a).

Material examined. Zakarpatska Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Rakhiv Distr., Chorna Tysa, A. Kreslawski leg., 14.vi.1973; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 27.vi.1973; Volyn Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Markovichi, A. Yakovlev leg., 4.v.1898; 1 spec. (KrC) Shatsk Distr., Pishcha, Ladinka ponds, A.M. Kravchenko leg., 8.vi.2003 ; Zakarpatska Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) near Kolochava, biological station of NSPU, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 17.vi.2015; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 11.vi.1911; Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Borschiv, 12 km from Radomyshl, Birulya leg., 28.vi.1910; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Bila Tserkva, V. A. Zaitsev leg., 21.vii.1904; 1 spec. (ZIN) Kyiv; 1 spec. (SIZK) Kyiv, Urochyshche Lysa Hora, near swamp, on Eupatorium cannabinum, V.Yu. Nazarenko leg., 27.v.1999 ; Poltava Prov.: 3 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, D. Ogloblin leg., 5.vi.1910; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava env., Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 18.v.1922; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 11.vii.1923; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 9.v.1926; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 4.vii.1926; 1 spec. (ZIN) Pyryatyn, Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 25.vii.1925; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Zmiiv, Arnoldi leg., vi.1917 .

Biology. Forests, meadows, shrublands. Adults occur in V–IX (Gumovsky 1997). On Scrophulariaceae: Scrophularia umbrosa (Penecke 1928); S. nodosa (Penecke 1928; Wingelmüller 1937; Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1976; Isayev 2007); S. canina (Hoffmann 1958); Limosella aquatica (it is probably misidentified Scrophularia umbrosa) (Smreczyński 1976); Verbascum thapsus, V. nigrum, V. blattaria, V. lychnitis (Gumovsky 1997); V. densiflorum, V. phoeniceum (Dedyukhin 2012) .