EN
The new adventive weevil, Otiorhynchus ropotamus ANGELOV, was confirmed in 2024 to occur in Poland. It was described from south-eastern Bulgaria, where it is bisexual, but in the rest of Bulgaria, as well as in Greece and in Czechia, where it was recently discovered in Hradec Králové, the males are unknown.Two parthenogenetic populations were detected in Wrocław, in the localities distant by over 8 km. In both these sites the weevil has different feeding plant preferences, other than in Czechia. In the first (Sienkiewicza str., Ołbin district) it was found only on the Berberis cultivars (in the place where the single specimen was first incidentally caught in 2016), and in the second site (Kozanów estate) it was collected in dozens from Syringa vulgaris L. and Ligustrum vulgare L. bushes and hedgerows. It is distinct from other Otiorhynchus species living in urban green areas in Poland primarily in the shape of large acute triangular tooth on distinctly inflated fore femora, having straight inner margin with several minute spines or asperities, and in the obtusely expanded fore tibiae in middle of inner margin.