Pauesia abietis (Marshall, 1896)

M a t e r i a l. 1 ♀, Kyiv: Sviatoshyn [50°27'24.94'' N, 30°22'6.15'' E], in apartment, in the lamp, 29.11.201 0 (Petrenko) (SIZK) ; 1 ♀, Cherkasy Region: Kaniv, Kryve Lake [49°45'30.20'' N, 31°31'1.22'' E], 17.07.197 2, reared from Cinara pinea (Mordvilko) 19.07.197 2 (Ichanskaya) (ZISP) ; 1 ♀, Crimea: Nikitsky Botanical Garden [44°30'37.79'' N, 34°13'51.39'' E], 18.06.197 2, reared from Cinara schimitscheki Börner 25.06.197 2 (Ichanskaya) (ZISP) ; 2 ♀, Crimea: Nikitsky Botanical Garden [44°30'37.79'' N, 34°13'51.39'' E], 19.06.197 2, reared from Cinara schimitscheki Börner 21.06.197 2 (Ichanskaya) ; 1 ♀, Crimea: Yalta, mountains [44°30'13.03'' N, 34°8'29.50'' E], 22.06.197 2, reared from Cinara brauni Börner 29.06.197 2 (Ichanskaya) (ZISP) .

С o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s. P.abietis (fig.7) is similar to P.pini Haliday (Davidian,2007) and differs by: 1) shorter temple (near 1/3 length of the eye); 2) coloration of mesoscutum (yellowish with 3 brown spots on its lobes); 3) stigma 1.3–1.5 times as long as metacarpus; 4) narrower and less deep areola of propodeum; 5) wider petiole (2.5–3.0 times as long as wide at spiracles level); 6) wider ovipositor sheath, almost not thinned at apex.

H o s t s. The main hosts are species of Cinara genus on Larix and Pinus: C. bogdanovi, C. cuneomaculata, C. laricis, C. maritimae, C. pilicornis . C. pinea, C. piniformosana, С. pruinosa, C. pubicornis, C. piniformosana, Cinara sp. (Tobias, Chiriac, 1986; Starý, 2006; Davidian, 2007; Yu et al., 2012). There are data on P. abietis parasitizing on Schizolachnus pineti and Aphis craccivora, but this information was not confirmed in latter publications (Yu et al., 2012).

H a b i t a t s. Coniferous forests, mixed forests, forests edges (Starý, 2006).

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Ukraine (Kyiv and Cherkasy Regions, first records), Crimea. Europe; Siberia (Russia: Irkutsk Oblast, Buryatskaya Respublika, Tuvinskaya Respublika); Eastern Asia (Russia: Primorskiy Kray; China; Northern and Southern Korea; Japan); Eastern Africa (Kenya) (Yu et al., 2012; Davidian, 2007; Tobias, Chiriac, 1986).