Mesotrichapion punctirostre (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 : 69-70

Mesotrichapion punctirostre (Gyllenhal)

Apion punctirostre Gyllenhal, 1839

Apion schmidtii Bach, 1854

Records. CRI ČER DNI IFR KHE* KHM KHR* KYI LWI ODE* RIV TER VIN VOL ŽIT* [Gyllenhal in Schoenherr 1839 a: 425; Lindemann 1871: 295; Łomnicki 1884: 34; Penecke 1928: 383; Penecke 1932: 356; Khrolinsky 1965: 116; Dieckmann 1977: 112; Isayev 1994: 13; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 303; Kubisz et al. 1998: 265; Mazur 2002: 220; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Nazarenko 2005b: 59; Parkhomenko et al. 2009: 122; Sumarokov 2009: 176; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 169].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, West Siberia, Mongolia, North China ( Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Eupatoria , V. E. Yakovlev leg. ; 2 spec. ( ZIN) Feodosia , Th.Lukjanovitsh leg., 31.viii.1925 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Zmiiv Distr., Spasov Skit , Iljin leg., 14.vi.1914 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 19.vi.1914 ; Kherson Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Lower course of Dniestr River, Ingulets , 8.vii.1928 ;

Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi Distr., Verbky , A. Kirejtshuk leg., 6.vi.1976 ; Odesa Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) " Odessa, Süd-Russland"; Ternopil Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kremenets, Strakhova Mt. , Kirejtshuk leg., 10.vi.1976 ; Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Zhytomyr env., Birulya leg., 9.vi.1897 .

Biology. Xerothermic grasslands. Adults occur in IV–IX ( Dieckmann 1977). On Fabaceae : Astragalus cicer ( Penecke 1928; Hoffmann 1958; Dieckmann 1977); A. austriacus ( Hoffmann 1958; Dieckmann 1977); A. danicus , A. glycyphyllos ( Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977); A. arenarius , A. onobrychis ( Dieckmann 1977) ; A. sulcatus , A. varius (Isayev 2007) ; A. cornutus ( Dedyukhin 2012) .