Sibinia (Sibinia) phalerata (Gyllenhal)

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 244

Sibinia (Sibinia) phalerata (Gyllenhal)

Sybines phaleratus Gyllenhal, 1835

Records. CRI IFR KHM KYI LUG* LWI MYK* ODE POL* SUM TER VIN [Gyllenhal in Schoenherr 1835: 440; Schoenherr 1843: 324; Lindemann 1871: 294; Cherkunov 1889: 192; Caldara 1985: 80; Mazur 2002: 239; Caldara 2004a; Nazarenko 2009c: 45; Caldara 2013a: 160].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, Levant, Iran, Kazakhstan, Middle Asia ( Caldara 2013a).

Material examined. Crimea: 2 spec. ( ZIN) Agarmish, Kirichenko leg., 18.vi.1905 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 8.vii.1906 ; 5 spec. ( ZIN) Eupatoria, V. E. Yakovlev leg. ; 2 spec. ( ZIN) 5 km SE of Mysove, Leontjev leg., 2.vii.1985 ; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 15.iv.1908 ; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Provallya , Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 23.vi.1928 ; Odesa Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Odesa, Kuyalnitsky Lyman, Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 2–3.viii.1927 ; Mykolaiv Prov.: 1 spec. (photo observation) Mykolaiv, N47.041586, E32.098274, R. Stepoviy leg., 8.iv.2016 ; Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Poltava env., Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 25.iv.1926 ; Sumy Prov.: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Mykhaylivska Tsilyna Nature Reserve , fallow within the reserve, logging plot, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 20.viii.2009 .

Biology. Dry slopes, salt marshes. Adults occur in IV–VIII. On Caryophyllaceae : Cerastium brachypetalum ( Hoffmann 1954; Smreczyński 1972; Lohse 1983h); Kohlrauschia prolifera ( Hoffmann 1954; Dieckmann 1988); Silene vulgaris , Arenaria serpyllifolia ( Smreczyński 1972) ; Dianthus sp., Petrorhagia sp. ( Lohse 1983h).