Pachypera spissa (Boheman)

Hypera spissa Boheman, 1842

Records. CRI KHE LUG ODE [Medvedev 1950c: 96 (? Hypera punctella Boh.); Medvedev 1953b: 1127 (? Hypera kraatzi Cap.); Arnoldi 1956: 28; Gontarenko & Nazarenko 2000: 44; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 53 (? Donus deportatus as Hypera punctella Boh., after Medvedev 1950c)].

Distribution. South - East Europe (Skuhrovec 2013)

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (KUMN) Ai-Petrinskaya Yaila Mt. Range, Merdven-Kayasy Mt., 800 m, mountain steppe, under stone, N. Yunakov leg., 26.v.2001; 3 spec. (ZIN) Eupatoria, V. E. Jakovlev leg., 21.v.1902, 3.vi.1906, 20.vii.1906; 3 spec. (ZIN) idem, without date; 3 spec. (ZIN) Kerch, 2.iii.1903; 5 spec. (ZIN) Kerch, Podushkin leg.; 1 spec. (ZIN) Kerch, Jatsentkovskij leg.; 1 spec. (ZIN) Kerch, Kiritschenko leg., 1907; 1 spec. (ZIN) Kerch, reared from larva, V. A. Zaslavskij leg., 20.v.1964; 2 spec. (ZIN) Karadag, 2.iv.1907; 2 spec. (ZIN) Tarkhankut, M. Semenov leg., 9.ix.1902; 4 spec. (ZIN) Kerch, Kamysh-Burun, Arnoldi leg., 30.iv.1923; 1 spec. (ZIN) Tauria, [Tchikrat], 1889; 1 spec. (ZIN) Krym, Yu. Wagner leg.; Kherson Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Askania-Nova Nature Reserve, S. Medvedev leg., 26.iv.1926; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) ca. 15 km SSE Krasnodon [= Sorokyne], Provalsky Step Nature Reserve, stone steppe, S. Medvedev leg., 22.v.1947 ; Odesa Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Odesa, m. Fontan, 8.ix.1903 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Kryzhanovka, near Odesa, E. Kirichenko leg., 27.v.1925; 2 spec. (ZIN) right slope Kuyalnytskyi Lyman, D. Znojko leg., 2.v.1927; A. K. leg., 10.x.1928; 1 spec. (SIZK) Krasnoselka env., Kuyalnytskyi Lyman, lake shore, in soil, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 26.ix.1998 .

Biology. Steppes, meadows. Adults occur in III–X. On Centaurea ruthenica (Asteraceae) (Isaev 2007).