Squamapion vicinum (Kirby)

Apion vicinum Kirby, 1808

Records. ČER IFR KHE KHR KYI LUG* LWI ODE POL* TER [Łomnicki 1884: 34; Cherkunov 1889: 191; Rybiński 1903b: 153; Łomnicki 1905: 83; Penecke 1928: 381; Khrolinsky 1965: 110; Solodovnikova & Peeva 1978: 77; Solodovnikova 1986: 68; Nazarenko et al. 1998a: 112; Nazarenko et al. 1998b: 118; Nazarenko et al. 1999: 531; Mazur 2002: 222; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Nazarenko 2005a: 90; Nazarenko 2006b: 163; Nazarenko 2010d: 82; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 162; Mikhailov 2013: 115].

Distribution. Palaearctic (Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Poltava Prov.: 3 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, Th.Lukjanovitsh leg., 6.viii.1927; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Zmiiv Distr., Gaidary env., Biological station, K. V. Arnoldi leg., 15.ix.1919 ; Luhansk Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Olkhovaya, Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 7.ix.1928; Odesa Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Dunaiski Plavni Nature Reserve, D. R. Kasparyan leg., 8.vii.1997 .

Biology. Wetlands. Adults occur in V–X (Dieckmann 1977). On Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica (Penecke 1928; Hoffmann 1958; Dieckmann 1977); M. arvensis (Penecke 1928; Dieckmann 1977); M. longifolia (Hoffmann 1958); M. suaveolens (Dieckmann 1977); Thymus sp. (Penecke 1928; Khrolinsky 1965).