Hypera (Dapalinus) contaminata (Herbst)

Curculio contaminatus Herbst, 1795

Records. ČER IFR LWI* ODE* RIV TER VOL ZAK [Łomnicki 1884: 30; 1905: 73; Penecke 1928: 361; 1931 (1932) 351; Roubal 1941: 208; Tveritina 1956: 137 ( Phytonomus cantominatus); 1962: 40; Gontarenko & Nazarenko 2000: 47; Mazur 2002: 230; Nazarenko 2010a: 703].

Distribution. Europe (excluding west and north), Asia Minor (Skuhrovec 2013)

Material examined. Lviv Prov.: 2 spec. (DMLU) Lviv region., near Lviv, Holosko, collection Stoeckel; 2 spec. near Lviv, Holosko, 20.iv; 2 spec. (SIZK) Lviv, Holosko, ponds, Jarosevich leg., 16.v.1942 ; Odesa Prov.: 1 spec. (GC) N Odesa env., Luzanovskjy forest, sweeping A. V. Gontarenko leg., 22.v.1999 ; Ternopil Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) near Kryntsiliv, Urochyshche Krasnyanska dacha, Krasnyanske Forestry, sweeping, from larvae, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 18.vi.2007

Biology. Meadows, grasslands. Adults occur in IV–VI. On Lathyrus tuberosus (Fabaceae) (Skuhrovec 2005).