Stereonychus fraxini (De Geer)

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Curculio fraxini De Geer, 1775

Records. CRI IFR KHM KHR KYI LWI POL TER VIN ZAK [Rybiński 1903b: 152; Roubal 1941: 248; Nemyrovska 1954: 91; Yunakov 1999b: 137; Mazur 2002: 260; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 47].

Distribution. Europe, North Africa (Caldara 2013a)

Material examined. Crimea: 4 spec. (KUMN) 25 kmE Simferopol, Mizhhiria env., Burulça River valley A.F. Bartenev leg., 26.vi.1985 ; 1 spec. (KUMN) 5 km W Angarsky Pass, S slope Çatır Dağ Mt.Range, Angar-Burun Mt., near Kutuzovskoye Lake, N. Yunakov leg., 12.v.1999 ; 1 spec. (KUMN) Bolshoi Kanion Reserve, Almatshuk River, N. Yunakov leg., 30.iv.1995 ; 1 spec. (KUMN) Crimean Nature Reserve, Khyr-Alan Mt.Range, Alma River bank S.I. Medvedev leg., 23.vi.1956 ; 2 spec. (KUMN) 20 km E of Bakhchisarai, Beshui env. S.I. Medvedev leg., 24.vi.1957 ; 9 spec. (KUMN) Karabi-Yaila Mt.Range, near Egiz-Tenakh Lake, N. Yunakov leg., 4.v.1996 ; 1 spec. (KUMN) idem, 26.iv.1998; 1 spec. (KUMN) Karabi-Yaila Mt.Range, Irtysh Mt. Yunakov leg., 2.v.1996 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) Luchistoe, forest, on Fraxinus, KDvr-10, S.N. Lazarenko leg., 7.vi.1989 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) idem, G.N. Nikitenko leg., 7.vi.1989; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 7 km S Zmiiv, Gaidary env., Bartenev A.F. leg., 3.vi.1987 ; 1 spec. (KUMN) idem, 27.v.1988; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Kyiv, Lysa Hora, forest along road, sweeping, V. Nazarenko leg., 27.v.2000 ; Ternopil Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Zalishchyky env., right bank of Dniester River, slopes, hills, ravines, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 2.v.1998 ; 1 spec. (SIZK) near Kryntsiliv, Urochyshche Krasnjanska dacha, Krasnianske Forestry, decidous forest, sweeping, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 18.vi.2007 .

Biology. Deciduous forests. Adults occur in IV–VI. On Fraxinus excelsior, Fraxinus ornus, Phyllirea angustifolia, Ph. media, Ph. latifolia (Oleaceae) (Smreczyński 1976)