Exapion (Exapion) corniculatum (Germar)

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 48

Exapion (Exapion) corniculatum (Germar)

Apion corniculatum Germar, 1817

Apion hungaricum Desbrochers, 1894

Records. CRI* ČER DNI IFR KHM KYI LWI RIV TER VIN VOL ZAK ŽIT* [ Iljin 1926: 228; Penecke 1928: 380; Smreczyński 1929: 80; Tenenbaum 1931: 359; Roubal, 1941: 112; Khrolinsky 1965: 108; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 302; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Kubisz et al. 1998: 264; Mazur 2002: 220; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Sumarokov 2004: 135; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 44; Sumarokov 2009: 176; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 158].

Distribution. Europe ( Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Crimea: 2 spec. ( ZIN) Ai-Petri, K. V. Arnoldi leg., 1947 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Roman-Kosh Mt. , 1540 m, Arnoldi leg., 22.v.1948 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Yaltinskaya Yaila Mt.Range , Dzhunyn-Kosh-Bogaz-Pass, 1400 m, mountain steppe, under stones, N. Yunakov leg., 14.vi.2001 ; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kamianets- Podilskyi Distr. , Verbky, Kirejtshuk leg., 6.vi.1976 ; Kyiv Prov.: 3 spec. ( ZIN) Kyiv; Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Zhytomyr env., Birulya leg., 15.vi.1897 ; 4 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 21.vi.1897 .

Biology. Xerothermic grasslands, stony slopes. Adults occur in IV–VIII ( Dieckmann 1977). On Fabaceae : Genista sagittalis ( Hoffmann 1958) ; G. germanica ( Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965); Cytisus hirsutus ( Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); G. tinctoria ( Khrolinsky 1965) ; Lembotropis nigricans ( Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); C. albus ( Dieckmann 1977) ; C. ruthenicus (Isayev 2007) .