Otiorhynchus (Podoropelmus) albidus Stierlin, 1861

Kizub, I. V. & Slutsky, A. I., 2018, Contribution To The Knowledge Of The Genus Otiorhynchus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) Of Ukraine. Part 1, Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka 9 (1), pp. 9-20 : 16

Otiorhynchus (Podoropelmus) albidus Stierlin, 1861

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Material examined. Crimea: Sevastopol, Kozacha Bay , 44.583501°N 33.415021°E, 6– 19.07.2006, 5 ♀ (Kizub) ; Saki District, Trudove , 45.236028°N 33.756827°E, 22– 29.07.2009, 1 ♀ (Khalin) .

Distribution. Ukraine: the Crimea, Kherson, Kropyvnytskyi, Odesa, and Zaporizhia Regions ( Magnano, 1999; Yunakov et al., 2018 a). Southern and Eastern Europe ( Alonso-Zarazaga et al., 2017). Introduced in Austria ( Schuh et al., 2015; Yunakov et al., 2018 a), Germany ( Yunakov et al., 2018 a), North of European part of Russia ( Korotyaev et al., 2018), and Southeastern Kazakhstan ( Kolov and Korotyaev, 2017). In the Republic of Moldova the species is treated as an invader ( Munteanu et al., 2014).

Biology. The species lives in sub-mountain and lowland xerothermic bushlands, semidry broadleaf and Mediterranean forests ( Yunakov et al., 2018 a). Ukrainian populations of the species are parthenogenetic ( Yunakov, 2003 b; Yunakov et al., 2018 a). The bisexual form is represented in the Greece and one male, described as O. strictipennis Magnano, 1999 , has been found in the Crimea ( Magnano, 1999; Yunakov, 2003 b; Yunakov et al., 2018 a). Beetles are nocturnal, dendrobiotic and polyphagous feeding on Carpinus orientalis , Clematis sp. , Cornus mas , Crataegus sp. , Juglans sp. , Prunus spinosa , Quercus pubescens , Q. petrea , Rosa sp. , Ulmus sp. ( Yunakov, 2003 b), Populus sp. , Tamarix sp. , Tilia sp. ( Munteanu et al., 2014), Pinus sylvestris , Prunus cerasus , and Syringa vulgaris ( Kolov and Korotyaev, 2017; Korotyaev et al., 2018). The species has been reported as a pest of fruit trees and Crataegus sp. ( Arnoldi et al., 1974).