Tychius (Tychius) picirostris
Creators: name: Yunakov, Nikolai
name: Nazarenko, Vitalij
name: Filimonov, Rostislav
name: Volovnik, Semyon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Tychius
Tychius picirostris

description: Tychius (Tychius) picirostris (Fabricius)
Curculio picirostris Fabricius, 1787
Records. ČER ČNG ČRK DON* IFR KHE* KHM KHR KYI LUG* LWI POL* RIV SUM TER VIN VOL ZAK ŽIT* [Krynicki 1832: 146; Chernay 1854: 170, 245; Nowicki 1864: 37; Łomnicki 1870: 82; Weise 1876: 108; Łomnicki 1884: 32; Łomnicki 1886: 216; Hormuzaki 1888: 153; Cherkunov 1889: 192; Rybiński 1903b: 151; Łomnicki 1905: 81; Penecke 1928: 376; Shapiro 1930: 143; Kryshtal 1949: 178; Tveritina 1953: 62; Fasulati & Sikura 1956: 73; Kryshtal 1956: 321; Tveritina 1956b: 137; Kryshtal 1959: 79; Tveritina 1959: 184; Medvedev 1963: 78; Petrukha et al. 1988: 139; Mazur & Kuśka 1994: 305; Kubisz et al. 1998: 271; Mazur 2002: 242; Nazarenko & Kravchenko 2002: 39; Sheshurak & Nazarenko 2002: 123; Caldara 2004a; Nazarenko 2005a: 94; Nazarenko 2005b: 60; Nazarenko 2006b: 164; Nazarenko & Petrenko 2008: 46; Nazarenko 2009b: 502; Nazarenko 2010d: 90; Nazarenko 2012g: 54; Caldara 2013a: 169; Nazarenko 2013b: 30].
Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, Levant, Iran, Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, Siberia, Mongolia, Russian Far East; introduced in North America (Caldara 2013a).
Material examined. Cherkasy Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Domantovo, V. Kizeritsky leg., 3.vi.1918; Donetsk Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Yaseneve, Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 1.vi.1939; 2 spec. (ZIN) Sloviansk, salty lands, Arnoldi leg., 2.vi.1935; 1 spec. (ZIN) Svyatohirsk Monastery, chalk, Arnoldi leg., 1.vi.1939; 1 spec. (ZIN) Banne, near Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 22.v.1939; 1 spec. (ZIN) Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 22.v.1937; 1 spec. (ZIN) Yarova, Arnoldi leg., 12.vi.1937; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 2.vi.1941; 1 spec. (ZIN) Sidorove, Svyatohirsk Monastery, Arnoldi leg., 28.v.1939; 4 spec. (ZIN) Netrius River near Svyatohirsk, Arnoldi leg., 30.v.1939; 2 spec. (ZIN) Steppe along Nyrkovo-Vyemka, Arnoldi leg., 8.vi.1939; Kharkiv Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kharkiv env., S. Iljin leg., 4.vi.1891; 1 spec. (ZIN) Kharkiv Distr., Yuzhny, Iljin leg., 5.vi.1916; 2 spec. (ZIN) Zmiiv Distr., Gaidary, Biological Station, Arnoldi leg., 10.vi.1919; Kherson Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) 10 km N of Tsuryupinsk [= Oleshky], sands, D. R. Kasparyan leg., 31.v.1974; 1 spec. (ZIN) Monast. Korsunskij, cursus in fl. Dnjepr. S.Medvedev, 5.v.1931; 1 spec. (ZIN) Oleshky, sands, S.I. Medvedev leg., 2.vii.1931; Khmelnytskyi Prov.: 1 spec. (ZIN) Kamianets-Podilskyi, B. Jakubowski & I. Jakubowski leg., 3.vi.1908; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 10.vii.1909; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 27.v.1911; 1 spec. (ZIN) Bahovitsa, N48.613172, E26.728403, Sainog leg., 5–9.vi.1896; Luhansk Prov.: 4 spec. (ZIN) idem, 13.vi.1940; 1 spec. (ZIN) Provallya, Luhansk env., S.I. Medvedev leg., 22.vi.1931;
Poltava Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Fedorivka, 11.v.1914; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava Distr., Svinkovka, 10.vi.1913; 1 spec. (ZIN) Dikanjka, 21.vi.1914; 2 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, D. Ogloblin leg., 3.vii.1912; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 20.v.1913; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava env., Th. Lukjanovitsh leg., v.1925; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 3.vi.1926; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 6.vi.1926; 3 spec. (ZIN) idem, 18.vi.1926; 5 spec. (ZIN) idem, 20.vi.1926; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 22.vi.1926; 2 spec. (ZIN) idem, 6.viii.1926; 4 spec. (ZIN) idem, 20.v.1927; 1 spec. (ZIN) idem, 22.v.1927; 1 spec. (ZIN) Poltava, Th.Lukjanovitsh leg., 30.v.1927; Zhytomyr Prov.: 2 spec. (ZIN) Zhytomyr env., Birulya leg., 21.vi.1897.
Biology. Grasslands, agricultural habitats. Adults occur in V–X (Dieckmann 1988). On Fabaceae: Trifolium repens (Penecke 1928; Smreczyński 1972; Lohse 1983h; Dieckmann 1988); T. pratense (Hoffmann 1954; Smreczyński 1972); T. hybridum (Hoffmann 1954; Smreczyński 1972; Lohse 1983h; Dieckmann 1988); T. arvense (Isayev 2007); T. lupinaster, T. montanum, T. spadiceum (Dedyukhin 2012).
description: 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 pages 256-257, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4404.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3766751