Catapion seniculus (Kirby)

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 59-60

Catapion seniculus (Kirby)

Apion seniculus Kirby, 1808

Apion palpebratum Gyllenhal, 1833

Records. CRI ČER ČRK DNI DON IFR KHM KHR KYI LUG* LWI MYK ODE POL RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK ZAP [Gyllenhal in Schoenherr 1833: 258; Schoenherr 1839: 380; Lindemann 1871: 295; Łomnicki 1884: 34; Łomnicki 1886: 231; Cherkunov 1889: 191; Hormuzaki 1889: 139; Łomnicki 1905: 84; Penecke 1928: 381; Shapiro 1930: 144; Kryshtal 1949: 180; Medvedev 1953a: 78; Tveritina 1953: 64; Sobol 1954: 316; Fasulati & Sikura 1956: 73; Kryshtal 1956: 321; Tveritina 1956b: 138; Kryshtal 1959: 81; Tveritina 1959: 182; Medvedev 1963: 78; Solodovnikova 1963c: 155; Khrolinsky 1965: 110; Solodovnikova 1965a: 9; 1965b: 337; 1966: 333; 1968: 30; 1970: 81; Petrukha et al. 1988: 143; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 302; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Kubisz et al. 1998: 265; Mazur 2002: 219; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Sumarokov 2004: 135; Nazarenko 2005a: 90; Nazarenko 2006b: 164; Nazarenko 2007b: 231; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 45; Nazarenko 2009c: 38; Sumarokov 2009: 176; Nazarenko 2010d: 82; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 164; Nazarenko 2012d: 190; Nazarenko 2012g: 50; Sumarokov & Nazarenko 2015: 17].

Distribution. Palearctic ( Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Simferopol env., A. Bazhenov leg., 1898 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Simferopol, Salgir River valley , A. Bazhenov leg., 15.vii.1899 ; 3 spec. ( ZIN) Alupka, 1889 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Aluschta, 1889 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Yalta, A. Khaustov leg., 17.xi.2000 ; Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) left bank of Siverskyi Donets River, Arnoldi leg., 20.vi.1936 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Banne, Siverskyi Donets River , Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 30.v.1937 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Yarova, meadows, Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 30.v.1937 ; 2 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 2.vi.1937 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kharkiv env., S.N. Zaporozhtsev leg.; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Spasov Skit, B. Iljin leg., 8.viii.1912 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kharkiv Distr., Zelenyi Hai , Kirejtshuk leg., 11.vi.1975 ; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 9.vii.1909 ; Kyiv Prov.: 6 spec. ( ZIN) Bila Tserkva, G. Sobol leg., 20.vii.1951 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Kyiv, left bank of Dnieper River, Horbachykha urochyshche, sweeping on psammophytic vegetation, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 18.viii.2004 ; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Stanitsa Luhanska, Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 13.v.1928 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Provallya , Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 25.v.1928 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 13.vi.1928 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 14.vi.1929 ; Poltava Prov.: 2 spec. ( ZIN) Poltava, D. Ogloblin leg., 5.viii.1915 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Poltava, Th.Lukjanovitsh leg., 27.v.1924 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 30.viii.1925 ; 3 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 6.viii.1926 ; 6 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 15.viii.1927 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 1–2.vii.1924 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 28 (15). iv.1925 ; 2 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 25.ix.1925 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 29.ix.1925 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 25.iv.1926 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 11.v.1926 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 18.vi.1926 ; 2 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 20.vi.1926 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 8.viii.1926 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 20.v.1927 ; 8 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 6.viii.1927 ; Zakarpatska Prov. : 1 spec. ( ZIN) Rakhiv Distr., Yasynya, meadow, 600 m, Zaslavsky leg., 31.v.1958 .

Biology. Meadows in forests, ruderal habitats. Adults occur in IV–XI ( Dieckmann 1977). On Fabaceae : Trifolium incarnatum , Medicago sativa , Ononis spinosa ssp. procurrens ( Hoffmann 1958) ; Melilotus officinalis ( Hoffmann 1958; Solodovnikova 1963a); T. pratense ( Hoffmann 1958; Solodovnikova 1963a; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); T. medium ( Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); T. repens ( Hoffmann 1958; Dieckmann 1977); Medicago falcata , Vicia cracca ( Solodovnikova 1963a) ; T. fragiferum , T. hybridum ( Dieckmann 1977) ; T. alpestre , T. montanum (Isayev 2007) ; T. lupinaster ( Dedyukhin 2012) .