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Smicronyx coecus

Description

Smicronyx coecus (Reich)

Curculio coecus Reich, 1797

Smicronyx politus Boheman, 1843

Records. CRI ČER IFR KHR KHM KYI LUG LWI SUM TER VIN [Łomnicki 1879: 222; 1884: 31; Cherkunov 1889: 190; Penecke 1928: 363; Nazarenko & Moroz 2001: 40; Mazur 2002: 240; Nazarenko et al. 2003: 53; Nazarenko 2012f: 54; 2013b: 29].

Distribution. Central and South Europe, Middle East (Caldara 2013b)

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (KUMN) ca. 16 km NW Yalta, env. Zagorskoe water reservoir, S. Medvedev leg., 27.vi.1957; Kharkiv Prov.: 2 spec. (KUMN) 23 km SE Balaklia, Protopopivka, mixed forest, on Cuscuta parasiting on Urtica, A.N. Drogvalenko leg., 27.vi.2000; 1 spec. (KUMN) idem, floodland, Siversky Donets River, swamp in forest, S. Medvedev leg., 21.vi.1952; 2 spec. (KUMN) Izyum env., Pridonetske Forestry, floodland, Siversky Donets River, edge of alder grove, S. Medvedev leg., 14.vi.1963; Sumy Prov.: 1 spec. (SIZK) Desniansko-Starohutskyi National Park, near Bilousivka, q. 133, left bank of Ulichka River, near water, sweeping, V.Yu. Nazarenko leg., 19.vi.2006; Ternopil Prov.: 1 spec. (KUMN) ca. 40 km SE Ternopil, Medobory Nature Reserve, Paivka, Urochyshche Shypshyna, sweeping on steppose sites, A.N. Drogvalenko leg., 03.vii.2005;

Biology. Meadows, shrublands, steppes, forests. Adults occur in IV–IX. On Cuscut a spp. (Convolvulaceae) (Dieckmann 1986; Mazur 2002)

Notes

Published as part of Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 1-494 in Zootaxa 4404 (1) on page 237, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4404.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3766751

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Smicronyx
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Reich
Species
coecus
Taxon rank
species

References

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  • Lomnicki, M. A. (1879) Wykaz chrzaszczow nowych dla fauny Galicyi. Sprawozdanie Komisyi Fizyjograficznej, 13, 221 - 223
  • Lomnicki, M. A. (1884) Catalogus Coleopterorum Haliciae. Sumptibus L. Zontaki, Custodis Musaci Dzieduszyckiani, Leopoli, 43 pp.
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