Cyphocleonus dealbatus (Gmelin)

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 371

Cyphocleonus dealbatus (Gmelin)

Curculio dealbatus Gmelin, 1790

Curculio tigrinus Panzer, 1789 [HN].

Curculio marmoratus Fabricius, 1792

Records. CRI ČER ČNG ČRK DNI DON IFR KHE* KHM* KHR KRO* KYI LUG LWI MYK* ODE POL RIV SUM* TER VOL ZAK ZAP* ŽIT* [ Hummel 1827: 42; Nowicki 1858: 17, 1873: 35; Łomnicky 1870: 11; 1875: 176, 1884: 31; Hormuzaki 1888: 153; Shishkin 1914: 48; Kuzmin & Lindeman 1928: 42–43; Lukjanovitch 1928: 248; Penecke 1928: 358; Shapiro 1940a: 52; Roubal 1941: 168; Kryshtal 1949: 54; Arnoldi 1956: 296, 338; Globova 1958: 164; Tveritina 1962: 38–39, 139; Medvedev & Solodovnikova 1974: 100; Kubisz et al. 1998: 270; Mazur 2002: 227; Sumarokov 2009: 177; Nazarenko 2009b: 500; Kravchenko 2010: 60; Kravets 2016: 124].

Distribution. Palaearctic (excluding north) ( Meregalli & Fremuth 2013).

Material examined. 270 specimens ( ZIN, SIZK, KUMN, ZMUK NSPU, IMC, SKC, YKC) from 19 provinces were studied. Kherson Prov. : 1 spec. ( IMK) Kherson, 12.v.1956 ; 2 spec. ( IMC) Tsiurupynsk env., Rafalsky leg., 2.x.1966 ; 1 spec. ( IMC) idem, 20.xi.1966 ; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kamianets-Polilskyi Distr., Bagovitsya , Grum-Grzhimajlo leg., 21–23.vi.1895 ; Kropyvnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Holovanivske Forestry , 9.v.1965 ; 1 spec. ( IMK) Kropyvnytskyi Distr., Velyka Viska , 14.v ; 1 spec. ( IMK) idem, 12.v ; 1 spec. ( IMK) Olexandriya , 1.viii ; 3 spec. ( SIZK) Dolinska Distr. , I.Pisnya leg., viii.1983 ; 1 spec. ( ZMUK) Znamyanka Distr., Chorny Forest , Rohocha leg., 17.vi.1953 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Vesely Bokovenky ; Mykolaiv Prov. : 2 spec. ( SIZK) Voznesensk Distr., Trykraty ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Pershotravneve Distr. , Chausovo, S. V. Volovnik leg., 24.iv.1983 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Kryve Ozero , S. V. Volovnik leg., on Artemisia absinthium , 3.viii.1983 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Voznesensk Distr. , on the bottom of irrigative channel, 3.vi.1966 ; Sumy Prov.: 13 spec. ( ZIN) Sumy env., Benois leg., 1891 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Trostyanetz Distr., Neskuchayivske Forestry , 20.vi.1952 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Trostyanets, Potarivka gully, 29.vi.1953 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Akhtyrka Distr. , 20.vi.1952 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Lebedyn Distr., Lifine , Goncharenko leg., 15.vi.1953 ; 1 spec. ( ZMUN) Hlukhiv Distr., Bereza , P.N. Sheshurak leg., 13.vii.2005 ;

Zaporizhia Prov.: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Kamyanka-Dniprovska, vi.1977; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Rozyvka Distr., Kamyani Mohyly Reserve, on Artemisia austriaca, S.V. Volovnik leg., 15.viii.1982; 2 spec. ( SIZK) idem, on Tanacetum , 27.vi.1980; 3 spec. ( SIZK) Prymorsk Distr., Obytochna Spit, curtain of Artemisia in the marine coast shore, S. V. Volovnik leg., 26.viii.1982; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Melitopol, forest park, on Melilotus, S.V. Volovnik leg., 8.vii.1977; 1 spec. ( SSC) Zaporizhia, Khortytsia Island, 12.vii.1999; 1 spec. ( SSC) Melitopol, S. Suchkov leg., 17.iv.2000; 1 spec. ( YKC) Melitopol Distr., Chapayivka, Yu. V. Karmyshev leg., 30.vi.2013; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Melitopol Distr., edge of Staroberdyansky Forest, 23.vi.1965; Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Zhytomyr, Proschiga leg., 9.v.1925; 1 spec. ( IMC) Malin, Bogachev leg., 5.ix.1944; 1 spec. ( IMC) Malin, Bogachev leg., under Artemisia and Achillea , 10.x.1944; 4 spec. ( IMC) Malin, sands, under Artemisia, Bogachev leg., 23.x.1944; 1 spec. ( IMC) Malin, pine park, Bogachev leg., 13.viii.1944.

Biology. Grasslands, forests, sandy and ruderal habitats. Adults occur in IV–XI. Oligophagous on Asteraceae : Achillea millefoilium , Tripleurospermum maritimum subsp. inodorum , Andryala integrifolia , Centaurea spp., Artemisia spp. ( Keppen 1882; Bargagli 1884; Gushcho 1954; Hoffmann 1963; Smreczyński 1968; Volovnik 1989).