Cionus olivieri Rosenschöld

Cionus olivieri Rosenschöld, 1838

Records. CRI ČER ČRK DNI DON IFR KHE* KHM KHR* LUG LWI MYK ODE POL TER VIN VOL ZAP ŽIT [Rosenschöld in Schoenherr 1838: 725; Schoenherr 1845: 178; Łomnicki 1870: 82; Król 1877: 56; Łomnicki 1884: 32; Łomnicki 1886: 218; Kulikowski 1897: 210; Silantiev 1898: XXV; Rybiński 1903b: 152; Pyatakova 1930: 334; Shapiro 1940a: 52; Kryshtal 1949: 179; Medvedev 1953a: 78; Nemyrovska 1954: 91; Kryshtal 1959: 79; Nadvorny 1996: 60; Gumovsky 1997: 60; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Mazur 2002: 226; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 54; Caldara 2004a; Sumarokov 2004: 136; 2009: 177].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, Levant, Iran, Middle Asia (Caldara 2013a).

Material examined. Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 4.v.1923; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava env., Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 14.vi.1923; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, D. Ogloblin leg., 5.vi.1911; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 12.vi.1912; 2 spec. (ZIN) Triby, Poltava Distr., Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 22.v.1922; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 7 km S Zmiiv, Gaidary env., Bartenev A.F. leg., 03.vi.1988; 3 spec. (KUMN) SEE env. of Kharkiv, Dokuchaeva, on Verbascum lychnitis, N. Yunakov leg., 19.vii.1998; 1 spec. (KUMN) 5 km SWW Chuhuiv, Dachi railway platform env., pine forest, on Verbascum densiflorum, N. Yunakov leg., 25.v.1998; 2 spec. (KUMN) idem, A.N. Drogvalenko leg., 04.vi.2004; 1 spec. (KUMN) Izyum, Kremyanets Mt., A.N. Drogvalenko leg., 09.viii.2004 ; Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., viii.1934; 3 spec. (ZIN) Prishib, Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., vii.1936; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 5.vi.1937; 1 spec. (ZIN) Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 27.v.1937; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 4.vi.1939; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, Arnoldi leg., 5.vi.1939; 1 spec. (ZIN) Yarova, Arnoldi leg., 2.vi.1937; 2 spec. (ZIN) Tetyanivka, Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 25.vi.1938; 1 spec. (ZIN) Banne, Siverskyi Donets River, Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., vii.1936 ; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Olkhovaya, V. Talicky leg., 9.vii.1927; Dnipro Prov.: 5 spec. (ZIN) Dnipro, A. Yakovlev leg.; 1 spec. (ZIN)

Kherson Prov.: 5 spec. (ZIN) Korsun, Ter-Minasian leg., 23.vii.1933; Aleshki, P. Egorov leg., 22.v.1927; Crimea: 1 spec. (ZIN) Tauria, A. Yakovlev leg.; 2 spec. (ZIN) Belbek, V. Pliginsky leg., 3.vi.1903 .

Biology. Meadows in forests, stony slopes, sandy habitats. Adults occur in V–VIII. On Scrophulariaceae: Verbascum densiflorum, V. thapsus (Wingelmüller 1937; Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1976; Gumovsky 1997); V. nigrum, V. sinuatum (Hoffmann 1958; Gumovsky 1997); V. lychnitis, V. phoeniceum (Isayev 2007) .