On the Persistence of Populations of Three Adventive Species of the Weevil Genus Otiorhynchus Germ. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Entiminiae) on Lilacs (Syringa L.) in St. Petersburg in 2018

A preliminary inventory of weevil AssemBlages (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) in Kharkiv metropolitan area (Ukraine) using pitfall traps

“…Th e Coleoptera is the largest order among insects, within which weevils (Curculionoidea) are one of the largest groups. Unlike some other beetles (for example, Carabidae), an insignifi cant number of publications is devoted to the study of Curculionoidea in urban landscapes in Europe and information on them is fragmentary (Cmoluch, 1972;Cholewicka, 1981;Weidner, 1983;Klausnitzer, 1990;Molodova, 1990Molodova, , 1991Elechtner, Klinger, 1991;Matusevich, Kostin, 1994;Chumakov, 1999;Meleshko, 2002;Aleksandrowicz, Krzętowski, 2004;Halinouski, 2005;Korotyaev et al, , 2019. Th ese works dealt with the ecological features of some species rather than a faunistics.…”