Squamapion phocopus (Eppelsheim, 1888)

Bolu, Halil & Legalov, Andrei A., 2008, On the Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) fauna of Almond (Amygdalus communis L.) Orchards in South-eastern and Eastern Anatolia in Turkey, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 8 (1), pp. 75-86 : 75-86

Squamapion phocopus (Eppelsheim, 1888)

Material examined: 1 ex., Keban , 7.10.2003 ; 1 ex., Sivrice , 7.7.2004 ; 1 ex., Gezin , 18.8.2003 ; 5 ex., idem, 7.7.2004 ; 1 ex., idem, 13.8.2004 ; 1 ex., idem, 31.8.2004 ; 3 ex., idem, 14.9.2004 ; 1 ex., idem, 21.9.2004 ; 1 ex., idem, 8.10.2004 ; 1 ex., Mardin, 22.10.2004 ; 1 ex., Akbağ , 1.10.2004 ; 1 ex., Ömerli , 7.10.2004 ; 1 ex., Ergani , 29.6.2004 ; 1 ex., idem, 28.7.2004 .

Host plants of larva: Salvia ( Friedman and Freidberg 2007) .

Distribution: Turkey ( Hayat et al. 2002), North Aegean Is. ( Fauna Europea 2004), Asia Minor ( Friedman & Freidberg 2007).

Remarks: An incidental species on almonds. Imago feed in addition on this plant.