The first analysis of the weevil fauna of the Khomutovskaya Steppe Nature Reserve in southern Donbass region, a reference of the southern (motley-grass–fescue–feathergrass) steppes of the northern Sea of Azov region, is carried out. 227 species from five families of the Curculionoidea were found in the course of the multi-year investigations in the territory. The main characteristic features of the investigated fauna are (1) the prevalence of the Mediterranean zoogeographic complex over the Scythian (steppe) complex with the presence also of a group of the Pontic and Northern Pontic species (including species endemic and subendemic to the Sea of Azov region steppes), and (2) a considerable number of Western Palaearctic nemoral species. Fifty rare weevil species have been found, out of which forty are indicators of the virgin steppe biocoenoses. In particular, stable populations of two out of the three protected in the region weevil species, and , persist in the Khomutovskaya Steppe.
Nikulina T.V. (Wed,) studied this question.