Tychius (Tychius) crassirostris Kirsch

Tychius crassirostris Kirsch, 1871

Records. CRI* ČER DNI DON* IFR KHM KHR* KYI LUG* LWI RIV TER VIN VOL ZAK ZAP ŽIT* [Penecke 1928: 375; Smreczyński 1929: 79; Tenenbaum 1931: 357; Kryshtal 1959: 79; Medvedev et al. 1972: 56; Petrukha et al. 1988: 134; Caldara 1990: 178; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 305; Kubisz et al. 1998: 271; Mazur 2002: 241; Caldara 2004a; Sumarokov 2004: 136; Nazarenko 2005a: 94; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 46; Sumarokov 2009: 180; Nazarenko 2010d: 90; Caldara 2013a: 164].

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

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (ZIN) Simferopol Pawlowski leg., 1.vi.1911; Dnipro Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Synelnykove Distr., Raivka, Sumarokov leg., 24.v.1988 ; Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Yarova, Svyatohirsk Monastery, meadow, Arnoldi leg., 2.vi.1937 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 27.v.1937 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 1.vi.1937; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 22.vi.1937; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 23.v.1939; 3 spec. (ZIN) idem, 1.vi.1939; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Zakomelskaya, Arnoldi leg., 26.vi.1939; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 1907; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Starobelsk, Silantjev leg., 30.vi.–12.vii.1897 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Stanitsa Luhanska, Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 6.vi.1928; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 23.vi.1929; 1 spec. (ZIN) Derkul, Kiseleva Balka, K. Arnoldi leg., 14.vi.1952; Zhytomyr Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Zhytomyr env., Birulya leg., 9.vi.1897 .

Biology. Grasslands, ruderal habitats. Adults occur in V–VIII (Dieckmann 1988). On Fabaceae: Medicago falcata, M. sativa, Melilotus albus, M. altissimus, M.officinalis (Hoffmann 1954; Smreczyński 1972; Dieckmann 1988).