Pseudoprotapion elegantulum (Germar)

Apion elegantulum Germar, 1818

Apion neglectum Gyllenhal, 1833

Records. CRI ČER DNI IFR KHM KHR KYI LWI SUM TER VIN [Gyllenhal in Schoenherr 1833: 253; Schoenherr 1839: 377; Lindemann 1871: 196, 295; Hormuzaki 1888: 155; Cherkunov 1889: 190; Penecke 1928: 383; Smreczyński 1929: 81; Solodovnikova 1963c: 155; Khrolinsky 1965: 115; Solodovnikova 1965a: 10; 1965b: 338; 1966: 334; 1968: 30; Solodovnikova & Peeva 1978: 77; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 303; Kubisz et al. 1998: 264; Mazur 2002: 221; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Sumarokov 2004: 135; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 45; Parkhomenko et al. 2009: 122; Sumarokov 2009: 176; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 176].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Levant, Siberia, North Africa (Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (ZIN) Simferopol, A. Bazhenov leg., 17.iv.1899; 1 spec. (ZIN) Alma, A. Bazhenov leg., 5.vii.1899; 2 spec. (ZIN) Mezhgorye, Forestry, D. R. Kasparyan leg., 11.ix.1980 .

Biology. Forest edge, xerothermic grasslands, agricultural habitats. Adults occur in V–X (Dieckmann 1977). On Onobrychis viciifolia (Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); O. arenaria (Dieckmann 1977) .