Ellescus bipunctatus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Legalov, Andrei A., 2024, Reclassification of the tribe Ellescini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Ecologica Montenegrina 75, pp. 200-241 : 229

Ellescus bipunctatus ( Linnaeus, 1758) ( Figs. 5 s- 5t)

= Curculio bipunctatus Linnaeus 1758: 380

= Curculio unipunctatus Olivier 1791: 495

= Orchestes ruficornis Zetterstedt 1837: 185

= Mecinus erythrocerus Abeille de Perrin 1910: 83

= Elleschus borealis Carr 1920: 220

Host plants: Salix caprea L., S. cinerea L., S. aurita L., S. viminalis L., S. pentandra L., S. bebbiana Sargent , Populus tremuloides Michx. ( Smreczyński 1972; Dieckmann 1988; Isaev 1994; ( Lewis & Anderson 2023).

Distribution: Europe; Russia (Chechen Republic, Republic of Dagestan, Republic of Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Republic of North Ossetia – Alania, Chuvash Republic, Kirov Oblast, Republic of Mordovia, Republic of Tatarstan, Udmurt Republic, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Kaliningrad Oblast, Moscow Oblast, Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast, Ryazan’ Oblast, Smolensk Oblast, Vladimir Oblast, Republic of Karelia, Leningrad Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Perm’ Krai, West Siberia: Tyumen Oblast, Omsk Oblast, Tomsk Oblast, Novosibirsk Oblast, Kemerovo Oblast, Altai Republic, Krasnoyarsk Krai, East Siberia: Irkutsk Oblast, Buryatiya Republic, Far East: Kamchatka Oblast, Amur Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorskii Krai); Japan; Canada (Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan), USA (Alaska, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania) (Zabaluev 2017; Legalov et al., 2019; Legalov 2020d; Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2023; Lewis & Anderson 2023).

Figures

Figure 5. Dorytomus and Ellescus spp., aedeagus: a – Dorytomus (Alycodes) friebi, dorsal view; b – D. (A.) friebi, lateral view; c – D. (A.) egorovi, dorsal view; d – D. (A.) egorovi, lateral view; e – D. (A.) winteri, dorsal view; f – D. (A.) winteri, lateral view; g – D. (Populolamus) nebulosus, dorsal view; h – D. (P.) ictor, dorsal view; i – D. (P.) ictor; ventral view; j – D. (P.) minutus, dorsal view; k – D. (P.) minutus, lateral view; l – D. (Mesodorytomus) occallescens, dorsal view; m – D. (M.) occallescens, lateral view; n – D. (M.) cinereus, dorsal view; o – D. (M.) cinereus, lateral view; p – D. (M.) annae, dorsal view; q – D. (M.) ruber, dorsal view; r – D. (M.) ruber, lateral view; s – Ellescus bipunctatus, dorsal view; t – E. bipunctatus, lateral view; u – E. scanicus, dorsal view; v – E. languidus, dorsal view. Scale bar = 0.2 mm.