Perapion (Perapion) violaceum violaceum (Kirby)

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 35

Perapion (Perapion) violaceum violaceum (Kirby)

Apion violaceum Kirby, 1808

Records. ČER IFR KHM KYI LWI ODE POL* RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK [ Nowicki 1864: 33; Weise 1876: 108; Łomnicki 1884: 34; Łomnicki 1886: 234; Cherkunov 1889: 191; Kulikowski 1897: 212; Łomnicki 1905: 85; Penecke 1928: 382; Tveritina 1953: 64; Khrolinsky 1965: 113; Solodovnikova 1965a: 8; 1965b: 338; 1966: 333; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 302; Kubisz et al. 1998: 266; Mazur 2002: 221; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Nazarenko 2006b: 163; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 151; Nazarenko 2012d: 190; Nazarenko 2012g: 51; Nazarenko 2013b: 17].

Distribution. Palaearctic (excluding Middle Asia) ( Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Pyriatyn uezd, 5.vi.1913 ; Sumy Prov.: 2 spec. ( ZIN) Shostka, Kurnakov leg., 16.vi.1940 ; 3 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 26.vi.1940

Biology. Wetlands, ruderal habitats. Adults occur in IV–X ( Dieckmann 1977). On Rumex alpinus ( Penecke 1928) ; R. pulcher ( Hoffmann 1958) ; R. acetosa , R. conglomeratus , R. crispus , R. obtusifolius , R. patientia ( Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); R. alpestris , R. maritimus , R. sanguineus ( Dieckmann 1977) ; R. acetosella , R. confertus , R. longifolius (Polygonaceae) ( Dedyukhin 2012).