Pseudoprotapion astragali astragali (Paykull)

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 83

Pseudoprotapion astragali astragali (Paykull)

Attelabus astragali Paykull, 1800

Apion saeculare Gozis, 1881

Records. ČER ČRK DON IFR KHE* KHM KHR LUG LWI ODE* POL* SUM TER VIN ZAK ZAP ŽIT* [ Krynicki 1832: 145; Chernay 1854: 170, 239; Nowicki 1864: 33; Lindemann 1871: 196; Łomnicki 1884: 34; Łomnicki 1886: 231; Rybiński 1903b: 153; Łomnicki 1905: 84; Penecke 1928: 383; Arnoldi & Arnoldi 1938: 356; Tenenbaum 1938: 428; Medvedev 1953a: 78; Kryshtal 1959: 80; Solodovnikova 1963a: 225; Khrolinsky 1965: 115; Solodovnikova 1965a: 10; 1965b: 338; 1966: 334; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 303; Kubisz et al. 1998: 264; Mazur 2002: 221; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004; Alonso-Zarazaga 2011a: 176].

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Levant, Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, Siberia, Mongolia, North Africa (Alonso- Zarazaga 2011a).

Material examined. Cherkasy Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kaniv, Kryshtal, 15.vi.1936 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kharkiv env., S.K. Zaporozhtsev leg.; Kherson Prov.: 15 spec. ( SIZK) Biriuchyi Island , M. Goncharenko leg., 30.vi.1956 ; 15 spec. ( SIZK) idem, M. Goncharenko leg., 3.viii.1956 ; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 4.vi.1908 ; Odesa Prov.: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Vylkove, grassland, 15.vi.1965 ; Poltava Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Poltava, Lukjanovitch leg., 13 (26). v.1925 ; Zhytomyr Prov.: 1 spec. ( ZIN) Zhytomyr env., Birulya leg., 10.vi.1897 .

Biology. Forest edge, shrublands, xerothermic grasslands. Adults occur in IV–X ( Dieckmann 1977). On Fabaceae : Astragalus glycyphyllos ( Penecke 1928; Hoffmann 1958; Khrolinsky 1965; Dieckmann 1977; Mazur 2002); A. monspessulanus , A. vesicarius ( Hoffmann 1958) ; A. varius ( Hoffmann 1958; Solodovnikova 1963a); A. onobrychis ( Solodovnikova 1963a) .