Exapion (Exapion) difficile (Herbst)

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4404.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3801044
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scientific name	Exapion (Exapion) difficile (Herbst)
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Apion difficile Herbst, 1797

Records. CRI ČER DON* IFR KHR KYI LUG* LWI POL* RIV SUM TER ZAK ŽIT* [ Łomnicki 1884: 34; Łomnicki 1886: 230; Cherkunov 1889: 190; Łomnicki 1905: 83; Roubal 1941: 112; Solodovnikova 1963c: 155; 1965a: 8; 1965b: 337; 1966: 333; 1968: 30; Mazur 2002: 220; Nazarenko 2005a: 90; Nazarenko 2006b: 163; Nazarenko 2009b: 499; Nazarenko 2009c: 38; Nazarenko 2010d: 82; Nazarenko 2012d: 190; Nazarenko 2012g: 50].

Distribution. Europe, Asia Minor ( Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Crimea: 2 spec. ( ZIN) Ai-Petri, K. V. Arnoldi leg., 1947 ; Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) forest near Svyatohirskyi Monastery, chalk, Arnoldi leg., 27.v.1937 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 23.vi.1937 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 26.vii.1937 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Svyatohirskaya , chalk, Arnoldi leg., 20.vi.1937 ; 2 spec. ( ZIN) Yarova , Arnoldi leg., 20.vi.1936 ; 2 spec. ( ZIN) Novoselovka , Arnoldi leg., 27.vii.1937 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, Svyatohirsk , Arnoldi leg., 23.vi.1937 ; 4 spec. ( ZIN) Svyatohirsk , chalk, Arnoldi leg., 15.vi.1937 ; 2 spec. ( ZIN) Donetsky Lyman , Arnoldi leg., 15.vii.1938 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 4 spec. ( ZIN) Zmiiv Distr. , Zamostje, Iljin leg. ; 2 spec. ( ZIN) Zmiiv Distr. , Cherkaskyi Byshkyn, Arnoldi leg., 14.viii.1934 ; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kyiv; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Lisichansk env., sands, Arnoldi leg., 19.vi.1937 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Stanitsa Olkhovaya , V. Talicky leg., 10.vii.1927 ; Poltava Prov.: 2 spec. ( ZIN) Poltava env., Th. Lukjanovich leg., 2.viii.1925 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 16.v.1926 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 6.vi.1926 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Pyryatyn , Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 24.vii.1925 ; Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Zhytomyr env., Birulya leg., 19.vi.1897 .

Biology. Forest edge, xerothermic grasslands. Adults occur in IV–X ( Dieckmann 1977). On Fabaceae : Genista tinctoria ( Hoffmann 1958; Solodovnikova 1963a; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977; Nazarenko 2009c); G. germanica , G. pilosa ( Dieckmann 1977; Nazarenko 2009c); Cytisus ruthenicus ( Dedyukhin 2012) .