Hypera (Hypera) melancholica (Fabricius)

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 355-356

Hypera (Hypera) melancholica (Fabricius)

Curculio melancholicus Fabricius, 1792

Curculio fuscocinereus Marsham, 1802

Curculio murinus Fabricius, 1792

Phytonomus suturalis L. Redtenbacher, 1847

Records. ČER ČNG ČRK DNI IFR KHR KRO KYI LWI TER VIN ZAK ŽIT [ Lindeman 1871: 313; Łomnicki 1884: 30; 1886: 202; Rybiński 1903b: 144; Łomnicki 1905: 73; Penecke 1928: 362; Pyatakova 1930: 316; Shapiro 1930: 142; Roubal 1941: 210; Petrukha 1949: 114, 118; Kryshtal 1949: 175; 1959: 77; Nazarenko et al. 1998c: 118; Mazur 2002: 230].

Distribution. West Palaearctic (excluding West Siberia) ( Skuhrovec 2013)

Material examined. Cherkasy Prov.: 1 spec. Kaniv, A.A. Petrenko leg., 27.vii.1971 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. ( KUMN) Gaidary, summer 1991 ; Chernihiv Prov.: 1 spec. ( NSPU) Nizhyn, P.N. Sheshurak leg., 9.viii.1987 ; Kyiv Prov.: 1 spec. ( SIZK) Kyiv, Sovkhoz Sovki , sweeping, A.A. Petrenko leg., 15.v.1974 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Kyiv, Teremky , bank of the stream, A.A. Petrenko leg., 31.iii.1974 ; Lviv Prov.: 4 spec. ( DMLU) Lviv, 21.iv, 16.v.; 9 spec. ( DMLU) near Lviv, Holosko , A. Shtekl leg. ; 1 spec. ( KUMN) 20 km W Lviv , Zatoka railway station env., 5 km NW from railway, upland meadow, N. Yunakov leg., 12.vi.1995 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) near Lviv, Snopkiv , V. M. Lazorko leg., 27.v.1933 ; Zhytomyr Prov.: 2 spec. ( SIZK) Zhytomyr, G. Proschiga leg., 4.vii.1923 .

Biology. Meadows. Adults occur in V–VIII. On Fabaceae , mostly Vicia spp. ( Nazarenko et al. 1998c; Mazur 2002)