Perapion (Perapion) affine (Kirby)

Apion affine Kirby, 1808

Records. KHR KYI LUG LWI POL SUM [Cherkunov 1889: 190; Łomnicki 1904: 370; Łomnicki 1905: 85; Solodovnikova 1963a: 225; 1965a: 8; 1965b: 338; 1966: 333; Arnoldi et al. 1974: 223; Solodovnikova & Peeva 1978: 77; Solodovnikova 1986: 68; Mazur 2002: 221; Nazarenko 2006b: 163; Nazarenko 2010d: 82; Nazarenko 2012d: 190; Nazarenko 2012g: 51].

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

Material examined. Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Zmiiv Distr., Gaidary, Biological station, Arnoldi leg., 18.v.1918 ; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kyiv, Kroneberg leg.; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, D. Lgocki leg.; Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Pyryatyn, Lukjanovitch leg., 14.v.1925 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 24.vii.1925 .

Biology. Wetlands. Adults occur in V–X (Dieckmann 1977). On Rumex acetosa (Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977; Mazur 2002); R. acetosella (Polygonaceae) (Dieckmann 1977).