Sibinia (Sibinia) phalerata (Gyllenhal)

Sybines phaleratus Gyllenhal, 1835

Records. CRI IFR KHM KYI LUG* LWI MYK* ODE POL* SUM TER VIN [Gyllenhal in Schoenherr 1835: 440; Schoenherr 1843: 324; Lindemann 1871: 294; Cherkunov 1889: 192; Caldara 1985: 80; Mazur 2002: 239; Caldara 2004a; Nazarenko 2009c: 45; Caldara 2013a: 160].

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

Material examined. Crimea: 2 spec. (ZIN) Agarmish, Kirichenko leg., 18.vi.1905; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 8.vii.1906; 5 spec. (ZIN) Eupatoria, V. E. Yakovlev leg.; 2 spec. (ZIN) 5 km SE of Mysove, Leontjev leg., 2.vii.1985 ; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 15.iv.1908; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Provallya, Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 23.vi.1928; Odesa Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Odesa, Kuyalnitsky Lyman, Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 2–3.viii.1927; Mykolaiv Prov.: 1 spec. (photo observation) Mykolaiv, N47.041586, E32.098274, R. Stepoviy leg., 8.iv.2016; Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava env., Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 25.iv.1926; Sumy Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Mykhaylivska Tsilyna Nature Reserve, fallow within the reserve, logging plot, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 20.viii.2009 .

Biology. Dry slopes, salt marshes. Adults occur in IV–VIII. On Caryophyllaceae: Cerastium brachypetalum (Hoffmann 1954; Smreczyński 1972; Lohse 1983h); Kohlrauschia prolifera (Hoffmann 1954; Dieckmann 1988); Silene vulgaris, Arenaria serpyllifolia (Smreczyński 1972); Dianthus sp., Petrorhagia sp. (Lohse 1983h).