Otiorhynchus (Nihus) carinatopunctatus (Retzius)

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 285-286

Otiorhynchus (Nihus) carinatopunctatus (Retzius)

Curculio carinatopunctatus Retzius, 1783

Otiorhynchus scaber (Linnaeus, 1758) [MI].

Curculio scaber Linnaeus, 1758 [MI].

Records. ČER ZAK IFR KHM LWI ZAK [ Miller 1868: 25; Hildt 1893: 231; Endrődi 1960: 16; Arnoldi et al. 1974: 265; Mazur 2002: 236].

Distribution. Europe.

Material examined. 85 specimens ( KUMN, ZMUN, ZIN) .

Note. Due to misidentification this widely distributed common species was mistakenly named Otiorhynchus

scaber, auct. nec Linnaeus, 1758 during two centuries. The latter belongs to the genus Romualdius (tribe Trachyphloeini ) and is well known under junior synonymic name Romualdius bifoveolatus (Beck, 1817) .

Biology. Montane deciduous and mixed forests. Adults occur in V–VIII. Polyphagous.