Hypera (Hypera) postica (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 : 358

Hypera (Hypera) postica (Gyllenhal)

Rhynchaenus posticus Gyllenhal, 1813

Curculio variabilis Herbst, 1795

Records. CRI ČER DNI DON IFR KHE KHM KHR KYI LUG LWI MYK ODE RIV TER VIN VOL ZAK ZAP [ Belke 1858: 362; Nowicki 1858: 17; 1864: 34; 1865: 34; Łomnicki 1868: 137; 1870: 81; Miller 1868: 24; Nowicki 1870: 11; Lindeman 1871: 194, 313; Nowicki 1873: 35; Łomnicki 1875: 176; 1877a: 150; 1884: 30; 1886: 202; Hormuzaki 1888: 153; Cherkunov 1889: 188, 189; Rybiński 1903b: 144; Łomnicki 1905: 73; Shapiro 1930: 142; Shapiro 1940a: 52; 1940b: 365; Petrukha 1949: 109; Arnoldi 1956: 338; Kubisz et al. 1998: 271; Nazarenko et al. 1998a: 112; 1998b: 119; 1999: 532; Gontarenko & Nazarenko 2000: 46; Mazur 2002: 230; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2003: 83; Nazarenko 2005a: 92; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 53; Nazarenko 2005a: 92; Parkhomenko et al. 2009: 121; Sumarokov 2009: 178; Nazarenko 2010d: 86; Sumarokov & Nazarenko 2015: 18].

Distribution. Palaearctic, introduced to North America ( Skuhrovec 2013)

Material examined. 134 specimens ( GC, KUMN SIZK, ZIN) .

Biology. Meadows, steppes, fields, ruderal habitats. Adults occur in III–X. Oligophagous on Fabaceae : Astragalus , Galega , Lathyrus , Lotus , Lupinus , Medicago , Melilotus , Trifolium , Vicia ( Skuhrovec 2005) .

Notes. Frequently mixed with H. transsilvanica with similar morphology and biology features, thus the data from central, western, northern and eastern provinces of Ukraine may refer to both species.