Lixus (Dilixellus) pulverulentus (Scopoli)

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 394-395

Lixus (Dilixellus) pulverulentus (Scopoli)

Curculio pulverulentus Scopoli, 1763

Lixus algirus Fabricius, 1801 [HN].

Curculio angustatus Fabricius, 1775

Records. CRI ČER ČNG ČRK DNI* DON IFR KHE KHR KYI KHM KRO* LUG* LWI MYK* ODE* POL VIN * VOL ZAK ZAP* ŽIT* [ Carte 1858: 277; Łomnicki 1874: 17, 1884: 31; Lukjanovitch 1928: 250; Penecke 1923: 185, 1928: 358; Shapiro 1930: 142; Kubisz et al. 1998: 270; Pavlyuk 2009: 60; Nazarenko & Kravchenko 2002: 38; Mazur 2012: 232].

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

Material examined. 125 specimens ( ZIN, SIZK, KUMN, ZMUK, ZMUM, IMC, SKC, YKC) from 14 provinces were studied, including: Dnipro Prov .: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Novomoskovsk Distr., Andryivka, Goncharenko leg.; Kropyvnytskyi Prov .: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Znamyanka A. Paramonov, 1.vii.1927 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Holovanivske Forestry, 9.v.1965 ; spec. ( SIZK) Znamyanka Distr., Chorny Forest, Khyrovske Forestry, Goncharenko leg., 19.v.1952 ; Luhansk Prov.: 1 spec. ( SKC) Slovyanoserbsk Distr. , Tryohizbenka, S. V. Konovalov leg., 13.v.2010 ; 1 spec. ( SKC) idem, S. V. Konovalov leg., 1.vii.2011 ; Mykolaiv Prov.: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Pervomaysk Distr., Chausovo, on Arctium, S.V. Volovnik leg., 24.iv.1983 ; Odesa Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZMUK) Bilyayivka Distr., Yasky, 30.v.1968 ; 2 spec. ( SIZK) Krasni Okny, 14.vii.1980 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Vylkove, near Danube River , M. Nesterov leg., 31.v.1980 ; 2 spec. ( SIZK) Tarutyne Distr., Lisne, Staromanzirsky forest , 7.viii.1983 ; 1 spec. ( IMC) Savran Distr., Polyanetske, I. Maltsev leg., 1.vi.1969 ; 1 spec. ( IMC) Balta Distr., Borshchy, I. Maltsev leg., 10.vi.1967 ; 1 spec. ( IMC) Kotovsk [= Podilsk], forest, I. Maltsev leg., 29.v.1965 ; 1 spec. ( IMC) Odesa, I. Maltsev leg., 15.vi.1964 ; Vinnytsia Prov.: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Yampil Distr., Ivankiv, 18.vi.1965 ; Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Proschiga leg., 25.iv.1927 ;

Zaporizhia Prov.: 1 spec. ( FRC) 5 km S from Zaporizhia, S. Alexeenko leg., 10.v.2003 ; 3 spec. ( IKC) Vilnyansk Distr., Yasynuvate, Balchanska Balka, I. V. Kovalev leg., 1–2.vi.2008 .

Biology. Grasslands, meadows, forests. Adults occur in IV–VII. Polyphagous on Asteraceae , Malvaceae , Fabaceae , Brassicaceae and Polygonaceae ( Bodenheimer 1928; Krauss 1963; Isart 1967a, 1970; Nasreddinov 1977; Batra et al. 1981; Dieckmann 1983; Petney & Zwölfer 1985; Volovnik 1994b; Pavlyuk 2009).