Lixus (Phillixus) brevipes C.N.F. Brisout de Barneville

Lixus brevipes C.N.F. Brisout de Barneville, 1866

Lixus difficilis Capiomont, 1875

Records. CRI ČNG ČRK DNI KHR KYI LUG MYK* POL ZAP [Lukjanovitch 1926: 140; 1928: 249; Medvedev 1953a: 77; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 53; Sumarokov 2009: 178; Volovnik 2007: 527; Pavlyuk 2009: 61].

Distribution. Palaearctic (excluding North) (Gültekin & Fremuth 2013).

Material examined. Cherkasy Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Kaniv, meadow in hornbeam forest, Dudarenko leg., 18.vii.1960 ; Chernihiv Prov.: 1 m (NSPU) Korop Distr., Obolonye, Desna River floodplain, P.N. Sheshurak leg., 17.v.2011 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) Chuhuiv, environs of Dachi railway platform, A. Drogvalenko leg., 4.vi.2004 ; Kherson Prov.: environs of Tsiurupynsk, M. Sheygas leg., 10.v.1996 ; 1 spec. (ZIN) Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, Solonoozerny Division, M.D. Zerova leg., 5.vii.1971 , reared from the stem gall on Otites wolgensis 13.vii.1971 ; Mykolaiv Prov.: 1 m . (NSPU) Pervomajsky Distr., Kuripchino vill, bank of Pivdennyi Buh River, P.N. Sheshurak leg., 7.vi.2011 .

Biology. Grasslands. Beetles occure in V–VII. Oligophagous on Caryophyllaceae (Hoffmann 1954; Dieckmann 1983; Isayev & Zotov 2003; Volovnik 2007).