Larinus (Larinus) onopordi (Fabricius)

Curculio onopordi Fabricius, 1787

Larinus maculatus Gyllenhal, 1835

Larinus aegyptiacus Capiomont, 1874

Records. CRI* DON* KHE* KHR* ODE [Kulikovsky 1897: 198].

Distribution. West Palaearctic (excluding north), Sudan, Ethiopia (Fremuth 1982; Gültekin & Fremuth 2013).

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (ZIN) Feodosia, Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 31.viii.1925 (labeled as “ var. maculatus ”) ; 1 spec. (IMC) İçki Distr., sovkhoz Feodosijsky, I. V. Maltsev leg., 28.vii.1950 ; Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. (IMC) Kherson, I. V. Maltsev leg., 3.vii.1956; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) Kharkiv City, V. P. Zolotaryov leg. , 1974.

Biology. Grasslands. Adults occur in VI–VIII. Oligophagous on Echinops spp. ( Asteraceae) (Gültekin 2006a).