Tychius (Tychius) parallelus (Panzer)

Curculio parallelus Panzer, 1794

Tychius venustus auct. [MI] not Fabricius, 1781

Records. ČER KHM KHR KYI LUG LWI TER VIN VOL [Krynicki 1832: 146; Chernay 1854: 170; Cherkunov 1889: 192; Łomnicki 1904: 369; Łomnicki 1905: 80; Penecke 1928: 375; Medvedev 1950c: 91; Arnoldi 1956: 288; Mazur 2002: 242; Nazarenko & Kravchenko 2002: 39; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 54].

Distribution. Europe, Middle Asia, North Africa (Caldara 2013a).

Material examined. Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kyiv.

Biology. Pine forest edge, dry meadows, sands. Adults occur in IV–VI (Dieckmann 1988). On Fabaceae: Genista tinctoria (Penecke 1928; Hoffmann 1954; Smreczyński 1972; Dieckmann 1988); Chamaespartium sagittalis (Hoffmann 1954; Smreczyński 1972; Dieckmann 1988); Cytisus scoparius (Smreczyński 1972; Dieckmann 1988); C. austriacus (Dieckmann 1988); C. ruthenicus (Isayev 2007) .