Parethelcus pollinarius (Förster)

Curculio pollinarius Förster, 1771

Records. CRI KHE KHR KYI LUG LWI RIV VOL [Cherkunov 1889: 194; Kryzhanovskaya 1967: 65; Kryzhanovskaya 1975: 34; Mazur 2002: 236].

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (KUMN) Simferopol Distr., SSE of Simferopol, Dzhalman Ravine, Kachowski leg., 26.iv.1911 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1m, 2f, (SIZK), Krasnohrad Distr., Krasnohrad, O.A. Novikov leg., 22.v.1993 ; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Bila Tserkva, Shushkivska leg., 1.vii.2013 ; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Luhansk, Diakove, S. V. Konovalov leg., 16.v.1999; 1 spec. (SIZK) idem, 22.iii.2000; 1 spec. (SIZK) idem, 20.iv.2000; 1 spec. (SIZK) idem, 2.ix.1999; Volyn Prov.: 1f (SIZK) Shatskyi Distr., near Pischa, Zhyrnia locality, O. Kravchenko leg., 23.v.1999 .

Distribution. West Palaearctic (Colonnelli 2013).

Biology. Wetlands and forests. Adults occur in III–IX. In Ukraine monophagous on Urtica dioica (Urticaceae) .