Hemitrichapion pavidum ( Germar, 1817 )

Colonnelli, Enzo & Osella, Giuseppe, 2009, New data on some Curculionoidea (Coleoptera: Anthribidae, Apionidae, Curculionidae) from Sardinia *, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 421-426 : 423

Hemitrichapion pavidum ( Germar, 1817)

Material examined. Sardinia: Carbonia-Iglesias prov., Iglesias, dint. colonia Beneck , 636 m, UTM 32S 0462391 4355441, 2–16. V .2006, G. Chessa leg., Malaise trap, 1 ex ( CNBFVR) .

Notes. This is the first definite record for Sardinia of this species, doubtfully indicated for this region by Abbazzi and Osella (1992), Abbazzi et al. (1995), Colonnelli (2003) and Alonso-Zarazaga (2004). This weevil is distributed in Europe, Siberia, west Asia, the Middle East and Algeria ( Dieckmann 1977).

According to Dieckmann (1977), H. pavidum is monophagous in eastern Germany on Coronilla varia (Fabaceae) . Ehret (1990) added Coronilla emerus , Lathyrus pratensis and Ononis spinosa (Fabaceae) , although the finding of adults of this apionid on the last two plants is probably only occasional. None of these plants occur in the above-mentioned Sardinian locality; H. pavidum probably feeds on congeneric plant species present in the area ( Ballero & Angiolini 1991; Angiolini et al. 2005).