Smicronyx coecus (Reich)

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 237

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4404.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3801440
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Smicronyx coecus (Reich)
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Smicronyx coecus (Reich) View in CoL

Curculio coecus Reich, 1797

Smicronyx politus Boheman, 1843 View in CoL

Records. CRI ČER IFR KHR KHM KYI LUG LWI SUM TER VIN [ Łomnicki 1879: 222; 1884: 31; Cherkunov 1889: 190; Penecke 1928: 363; Nazarenko & Moroz 2001: 40; Mazur 2002: 240; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 53; Nazarenko 2012f: 54; 2013b: 29].

Distribution. Central and South Europe, Middle East ( Caldara 2013b)

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. ( KUMN) ca. 16 km NW Yalta, env. Zagorskoe water reservoir, S. Medvedev leg., 27.vi.1957; Kharkiv Prov.: 2 spec. ( KUMN) 23 km SE Balaklia, Protopopivka, mixed forest, on Cuscuta parasiting on Urtica, A.N. Drogvalenko leg., 27.vi.2000; 1 spec. ( KUMN) idem, floodland, Siversky Donets River, swamp in forest, S. Medvedev leg., 21.vi.1952; 2 spec. ( KUMN) Izyum env., Pridonetske Forestry, floodland, Siversky Donets River, edge of alder grove, S. Medvedev leg., 14.vi.1963; Sumy Prov.: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Desniansko-Starohutskyi National Park, near Bilousivka, q. 133, left bank of Ulichka River, near water, sweeping, V.Yu. Nazarenko leg., 19.vi.2006; Ternopil Prov.: 1 spec. ( KUMN) ca. 40 km SE Ternopil, Medobory Nature Reserve, Paivka, Urochyshche Shypshyna, sweeping on steppose sites, A.N. Drogvalenko leg., 03.vii.2005;

Biology. Meadows, shrublands, steppes, forests. Adults occur in IV–IX. On Cuscut a spp. ( Convolvulaceae ) ( Dieckmann 1986; Mazur 2002)