Hylobius (Hylobius) excavatus (Laicharting)

Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Zootaxa 4404 (1), pp. 1-494 : 410-411

Hylobius (Hylobius) excavatus (Laicharting)

Curculio excavatus Laicharting, 1781

Curculio piceus De Geer, 1775

Curculio pineti Fabricius, 1792

Records. ČER IFR KHR LWI ZAK [ Nowicki 1858: 17; 1864: 34; 1865: 34; Łomnicki 1868: 151; Miller 1868: 24; Nowicki 1873: 35; Łomnicki 1880: 11; 1884: 31; 1886: 208; Fudakowski et al. 1939: 41; Roubal 1941: 197; Zagajkevich 1958: 76; Mazur 2002: 230].

Distribution. Boreal and temperate areas of Palaearctic ( Alonso-Zarazaga 2013)

Material examined. Zakarpatska Prov.: 1 spec. ( KUMN) Rakhiv Distr., Carpation Biosphere Reserve, E. Turisz leg., 03–09.vii.1993 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) near Breskul Mt. , forest, road, sweeping, S. V. Sviridov leg., 3.vi.1994 ; 1 spec. ( SIZK) Hoverla, h=1530, A. V. Gontarenko leg., 1.vii.2015 ; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. ( KUMN) Zmiiv Distr., Gaidary, v–ix.1990 .

Biology. Mountain forests. Adults occur in V–IX. On Picea abies ( P. excelsa ) ( Pinaceae ) (Smreczyński 1968)

Notes. Find in Kharkiv Prov. requires confirmation.