Mogulones geographicus (Goeze)

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Curculio geographicus Goeze, 1777

Curculio echii Fabricius, 1792

Records. CRI * ČER DNI* DON* IFR KHM KHR* KYI LWI MYK* ODE POL* RIV TER VIN VOL ZAK ŽIT* [Krynicki 1832: 146; Chernay 1854: 170; Nowicki 1864: 37; Łomnicki 1884: 33; Łomnicki 1886: 224; Cherkunov 1889: 193; Rybiński 1903b: 148; Łomnicki 1905: 77; Penecke 1928: 369; Arnoldi et al. 1965: 571; Korotyaev 1980: 222; Isayev 1994: 63; Kubisz et al. 1998: 274; Mazur 2002: 233; Colonnelli 2004a: 61; Colonnelli 2004b; Nazarenko 2005a: 92; Nazarenko 2010d: 87; Colonnelli 2013: 196].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, North Africa (Colonnelli 2013).

Material examined. Crimea: 7 spec. (KUMN) 18 km SSE of Sevastopol, Rezervne env. [Küçük Muskomiya], xerophitic slope, under Echium vulgare, K.S. Nadein leg., 30.iv.2002 ; 1 spec. (KUMN) 22 km S of Bakhchisarai, near Bogatoe Uschelje, 700 m, Shekhovtsov A. leg., 03.viii.2009 ; Dnipro Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Vesele S. V. Izrailevich leg., 15.vi.1989 ; Mykolaiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Komarovka S. V. Izrailevich leg., 4.ix.1988; Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) Svyatohorski Monasteryenv., between Bohorodichne and Tatyanovka, A.N. Drogvalenko leg., 18.vii.2000 ; 1 spec. (FRC) Kramatorsk, Vesely—Vasiljevka, R. V. Filimonov leg., 22.iv.2011 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) 7 km S Zmiiv, Gaidary env., Bartenev A.F. leg., 10.vi.1988 ; 2 spec. (KUMN) Lyubotyn, Shekhovtsov A. leg., 07.vii.2008 ; 1 spec. (KUMN) Kharkiv, Saltivka, Park Pobeda, N. Yunakov leg., 24.vi.1999 ;

Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 1907; Lviv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) Stryj, left bank of Stryj River, Korotkova leg., 11.vii.1967 ; Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, Artobolewski leg.; Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Zhytomyr env., Birulya leg., 10.vi.1897 .

Biology. Grassy slopes, dry meadows, ruderal habitats. Adults occur in IV–IX. On Echium vulgare (Penecke 1928; Hoffmann 1954; Dieckmann 1972b; Smreczyński 1974; Kryzhanovskaya 1977; Isayev 2007); Pontechium maculatum (Isayev 2007); Lycopsis arvensis (occasionally?) (Kryzhanovskaya 1977).