Apion cruentatum Walton

Apion cruentatum Walton, 1844

Records. ČER ČNG* DON* KHE KHM KHR* KYI LWI RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK ŽIT [Tenenbaum 1931: 359; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 302; Kubisz et al. 1998: 264; Mazur 2002: 219; Nazarenko & Kravchenko 2002: 36; Nazarenko 2005a: 90; Nazarenko 2006b: 164; Nazarenko 2009b: 498; Nazarenko 2010d: 81; Nazarenko 2012d: 190; Nazarenko 2012g: 50; Mikhailov 2013: 115; Nazarenko 2013a: 109; Nazarenko 2013b: 14].

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

Material examined. Chernihiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Baturin, Olsufyev leg., 26.v.1905; Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Yarova, meadows, Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 30.v.1937; 1 spec. (ZIN) Tetyanivka, meadows, Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 2.vi.1937; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kharkiv env., Arnoldi leg., 5.vi.1907; 1 spec. (ZIN) Zmiiv, Arnoldi leg., 18.vi.1918; Kherson Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, Solenoozerny Division, Krivokhatsky leg., 21–22.v.1990 ; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kyiv, Trukhanov Island, E. Zverozomb-Zubovsky leg, 13.v.1913 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) Kyiv, Dnieper flood refuse, V. K. Sovinskii leg., 12.iv.1915 ; 2 spec. (SIZK) Kyiv, Koncha-Zaspa, G. Proschiga leg., 25.vii.1928 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) Kyiv, left bank of Dnieper River, Horbachykha urochyshche, sweeping on psammophytic vegetation, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 21.viii.2000 ; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Olkhovataya, Luhansk env., Talitsky leg., 7.ix.1928; Zakarpatska Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Velyka Berezna Distr., Malyi Bereznyi, Tereznikova leg., 31.vii.1957 .

Biology. Grasslands, pine forests, agricultural biomes. Adults occur in V–IX. On Polygonaceae: Rumex acetosa (Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); R. acetosella, R.alpestris (Dieckmann 1977) .