Aspidapion (Aspidapion) radiolus (Marsham, 1802)

Ghahari, Hassan & Colonnelli, Enzo, 2020, An annotated checklist of the Iranian Brentidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4759 (2), pp. 151-178 : 156

Aspidapion (Aspidapion) radiolus (Marsham, 1802)

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan ( Hoffmann 1968 as Apion radiolus Kirby ; Nikdel 2015 as Perapion radiolus ), Golestan ( Ghahari & Colonnelli 2012), Razavi Khorasan ( Legalov et al. 2010; Modarres Awal & Hossein Pour 2010; Zare Khormizi et al. 2016).

General distribution. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Azores, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Malta, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tadzhikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, tropical Africa.

Plant associations in Iran. Astragalus seidabadensis Bunge (Fabaceae) (Nikdel 2015), Pinus mugo L. ( Pinaceae ) ( Zare Khormizi et al. 2016). Both plants are unrelated to the known feeding habits of this species, which lives on Malvaceae ( Hoffmann 1958) .