Protapion apricans (Herbst)

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 76-77

Protapion apricans (Herbst)

Apion apricans Herbst, 1797

Apion fagi : auct. [MI]. not Linnaeus, 1751

Records. CRI ČER ČNG ČRK DNI DON IFR KHM KHR KYI LUG LWI ODE* POL RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK ZAP* ŽIT [ Chernay 1854: 240; Nowicki 1864: 33; Miller 1868: 24; Lindemann 1871: 196; Łomnicki 1884: 34; Łomnicki 1886: 232; Hormuzaki 1888: 155; Cherkunov 1889: 190; Łomnicki 1905: 84; Ksenzhopolskij 1913: 57; Penecke 1928: 381; Shapiro 1930: 144; Shapiro 1940a: 52; Kryshtal 1949: 180; Medvedev 1953a: 78; Tveritina 1953: 63; Sobol 1954: 316; Fasulati & Sikura 1956: 73; Kryshtal 1956: 321; Tveritina 1956b: 138; Kryshtal 1959: 80; Tveritina 1959: 182; Medvedev 1963: 78; Solodovnikova 1963a: 224; 1963c: 155; Khrolinsky 1965: 111; Solodovnikova 1965a: 10; 1965b: 337; 1966: 334; 1968: 30; Petrukha et al. 1988: 139; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 303; Barsov et al. 1998: 150; Kubisz et al. 1998: 264; Mazur 2002: 221; Nazarenko & Kravchenko 2002: 36; Sheshurak & Nazarenko 2002: 122; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2003: 83; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Sumarokov 2004: 135; Nazarenko 2005a: 90; Nazarenko 2005b: 59; Nazarenko 2006b: 163; Nazarenko 2007a: 94; Nazarenko 2007b: 231; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 45; Mateleshko et al. 2009: 489; Nazarenko 2009b: 499; Nazarenko 2009c: 39; Sumarokov 2009: 176; Nazarenko 2010d: 82; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 173; Nazarenko 2012c: 151; Nazarenko 2012g: 51; Nazarenko 2013b: 17; Sumarokov & Nazarenko 2015: 17].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Levant, Iran, Siberia, Russian Far East, North Africa ( Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Simferopol, Salgir River valley , Bazhenov leg., 15.v.1899; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 13.vii.1899; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Gurzuf , Keller leg., vii.1910; 4 spec. ( ZIN) Toply [= Topolevka]. near Stary Krym, Kh. Shaposhnikov leg., 30.viii.1932 ; Donetsk Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Svyatohirsk , Arnoldi leg., 1.vi.1937; 3 spec. ( ZIN) Tetyanivka , Arnoldi leg., 2.v.1937; 2 spec. ( ZIN) Yarova , meadows, Arnoldi leg., 30.v.1937; 6 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 2.vi.1937; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Yarova , Arnoldi leg., 28.v.1937; 2 spec. ( ZIN) Yasenove, near Svyatohirsk , Arnoldi leg., 1.vi.1939; 2 spec. ( ZIN) Netrius River, Svyatogirsk env. Arnoldi leg., 30.v.1939 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kharkiv Distr., Yuzhny , Iljin leg., 1.vi.1916; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 4.vi.1916; 6 spec. ( ZIN) Derhachi , S. Iljin leg., 28.vii.1913; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Savyntsi , Arnoldi leg., 13.vi.1939; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Zmiiv Distr., Gairary, Biological station , 27.v.1918 ; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 21.iii.1911; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi Distr., Bagovytsya , Sainog leg., 21.vii.1896; 2 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 10–15.viii.1896 ; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kyiv, D. Ogloblin leg.; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kyiv, airport, S.Tóth leg., 18.v.1975 ; Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Poltava, D. Ogloblin leg., 25.v.1917; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Poltava, Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., 1.ix.1923; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 25.ix.1925; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Poltava env., Th. Lukjanovich leg., 24.iv.1924; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Poltava, Lukjanovitsh leg., 3.v.1926; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 2.v.1927 ; Luhansk Prov.: 2 spec. ( ZIN) Borova River , Lisichansk Arnoldi leg., 19.vi.1937; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Yunytsky Nature Reserve , K. Arnoldi leg., 2.vi.1952; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Provallya , Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 14.v.1928; 2 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 23.vi.1928; 3 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 14.vi.1929; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Stanitsa Luhanska, Luhansk env., Talicky leg., 13.v.1928; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 13.vi.1928; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 23.vi.1929 ; Odesa Prov.: 2 spec. ( ZIN) Odesa, E. Fischer leg.;

Vinnytsia Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Vinnytsky Distr., Noskivtsi , Jacentkowski leg., 23.iv.1903 ; Zakarpatska Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Michhirya Distr , Kiryakova leg., vii–viii.1958 ; 2 spec. ( ZIN) Rakhiv Distr., Yasynya, Lazeschina River , 800 m, Zaslavsky leg., 13.v.1958 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) Rakhiv Distr. , 5–8 km NW of Kvasy, Gusarov leg., 21.viii.1994 ; Zaporizhia Prov.: 1 spec. ( FRC) Zaporizhia, right bank of the Dnieper River , S. Alexeenko leg., 20.v.2004 ; Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Zhytomyr env., Birulya leg., 17.vi.1897 ; 1 spec. ( ZIN) idem, 21.vi.1897 ; 2 spec. ( SIZK) Ruzhyn , Trifolium , sweeping, V. M. Stovbchatyi leg., 24.vi.2004 .

Biology. Meadows, ruderal habitats. Adults occur in III–IX. On Fabaceae : Trifolium pratense ( Penecke 1928; Hoffmann 1958; Solodovnikova 1963a; Smreczyński 1965; Dieckmann 1977; Nazarenko 2009c); T. montanum ( Hoffmann 1958; Smreczyński 1965; Nazarenko 2009c); T. alpestre , T. repens ( Solodovnikova 1963a) .