Pseudoprotapion astragali astragali (Paykull)

Attelabus astragali Paykull, 1800

Apion saeculare Gozis, 1881

Records. ČER ČRK DON IFR KHE* KHM KHR LUG LWI ODE* POL* SUM TER VIN ZAK ZAP ŽIT* [Krynicki 1832: 145; Chernay 1854: 170, 239; Nowicki 1864: 33; Lindemann 1871: 196; Łomnicki 1884: 34; Łomnicki 1886: 231; Rybiński 1903b: 153; Łomnicki 1905: 84; Penecke 1928: 383; Arnoldi & Arnoldi 1938: 356; Tenenbaum 1938: 428; Medvedev 1953a: 78; Kryshtal 1959: 80; Solodovnikova 1963a: 225; Khrolinsky 1965: 115; Solodovnikova 1965a: 10; 1965b: 338; 1966: 334; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 303; Kubisz et al. 1998: 264; Mazur 2002: 221; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 176].

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

Material examined. Cherkasy Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kaniv, Kryshtal, 15.vi.1936; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kharkiv env., S.K. Zaporozhtsev leg.; Kherson Prov.: 15 spec. (SIZK) Biriuchyi Island, M. Goncharenko leg., 30.vi.1956 ; 15 spec. (SIZK) idem, M. Goncharenko leg., 3.viii.1956; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 4.vi.1908; Odesa Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Vylkove, grassland, 15.vi.1965; Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, Lukjanovitch leg., 13 (26). v.1925; Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Zhytomyr env., Birulya leg., 10.vi.1897 .

Biology. Forest edge, shrublands, xerothermic grasslands. Adults occur in IV–X (Dieckmann 1977). On Fabaceae: Astragalus glycyphyllos (Penecke 1928; Hoffmann 1958; Khrolinsky 1965; Dieckmann 1977; Mazur 2002); A. monspessulanus, A. vesicarius (Hoffmann 1958); A. varius (Hoffmann 1958; Solodovnikova 1963a); A. onobrychis (Solodovnikova 1963a) .