Longitarsus absynthii, Kutschera, 1862

Bukejs, Andris, 2010, To The Knowledge Of Flea Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae) Of The Latvian Fauna. 6. Genus Longitarsus Latreille, 1829, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 10 (1), pp. 53-70 : 65-66

L. absynthii Kutschera, 1862

References: Pūtele1965, 1968, 1970a, 1970b,1971; Telnov et al. 1997; Telnov 2004.

Examined material: Not confirmed by the author.

Host plants: In the literature ( Bieńkowski 2004), Artemisia and Tanacetum (Compositae) are mentioned as host plants.

Phenology: VIII, IX.

General distribution: Europe ( Austria, Danube basin, Poland, Czechia, Croatia, Hungary, Rumania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, England, S Germany, N Italy, S Finland, France, Spain, Sweden), Asia Minor, Near East ( Israel), Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Central Asia ( Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), Mongolia. [ CAE]

Note: Pūtele (1965) reported this species from two localities. Record needs confirmation. According to the catalogue of Silfverberg (2004), the species is mentioned for Finland, Latvia and Sweden. It is not recorded in Belarus ( Lopatin, Nesterova 2005).