Lixus (Phillixus) brevipes C.N.F. Brisout de Barneville

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 401

Lixus (Phillixus) brevipes C.N.F. Brisout de Barneville

Lixus brevipes C.N.F. Brisout de Barneville, 1866

Lixus difficilis Capiomont, 1875

Records. CRI ČNG ČRK DNI KHR KYI LUG MYK* POL ZAP [ Lukjanovitch 1926: 140; 1928: 249; Medvedev 1953a: 77; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 53; Sumarokov 2009: 178; Volovnik 2007: 527; Pavlyuk 2009: 61].

Distribution. Palaearctic (excluding North) ( Gültekin & Fremuth 2013).

Material examined. Cherkasy Prov.: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Kaniv , meadow in hornbeam forest, Dudarenko leg., 18.vii.1960 ; Chernihiv Prov.: 1 m ( NSPU) Korop Distr., Obolonye, Desna River floodplain, P.N. Sheshurak leg., 17.v.2011 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. ( KUMN) Chuhuiv, environs of Dachi railway platform, A. Drogvalenko leg., 4.vi.2004 ; Kherson Prov.: environs of Tsiurupynsk , M. Sheygas leg., 10.v.1996 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, Solonoozerny Division , M.D. Zerova leg., 5.vii.1971 , reared from the stem gall on Otites wolgensis 13.vii.1971 ; Mykolaiv Prov.: 1 m . ( NSPU) Pervomajsky Distr., Kuripchino vill, bank of Pivdennyi Buh River , P.N. Sheshurak leg., 7.vi.2011 .

Biology. Grasslands. Beetles occure in V–VII. Oligophagous on Caryophyllaceae ( Hoffmann 1954; Dieckmann 1983; Isayev & Zotov 2003; Volovnik 2007).