Mecinus janthinus Germar, 1821

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 219

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4404.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3801184
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scientific name	Mecinus janthinus Germar
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Records. CRI ČRK DNI DON KHE KHM KHR* KYI POL SUM TER VIN VOL ZAP* ŽIT [ Cherkunov 1889: 190; Kryshtal 1949: 179; Lazorko 1963: 84; Isayev 1994: 66; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Arzanov 2000: 871; Mazur 2002: 232; Caldara 2004a; Sumarokov 2004: 136; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 47; Sumarokov 2009: 178; Kravchenko 2010: 61; Nazarenko 2010d: 87; Caldara 2013a: 138; Caldara & Fogato 2013: 69; Nazarenko 2013a: 109; Nazarenko 2013b: 24].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, Siberia; introduced in North America ( Caldara 2013a).

Material examined. Donetsk Prov.: 2 spec. ( ZIN) Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 27.v.1937 ; 2 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 25.vi.1938 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Yaseneve Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 22.vi.1936 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 8.vi.1938 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Yarova, Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 2.vi.1937 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Khomutovskyi Step Nature Reserve , 20 km N Novoazovsk, D. R. Kasparyan leg., 16.v.1974 ; Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Poltava, Th.Lukjanovitsh leg., 6.vi.1926 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 12.v.1924 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 12.iv.1925 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 25.iv.1926 .

Biology. Forest edge, xerothermic grasslands, agricultural habitats. Adults occur in IV–IX ( Lohse & Tischler 1983). On Linaria vulgaris (Plantaginaceae) ( Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1976; Caldara & Fogato 2013).