Eusandalum inerme (Ratzeburg, 1848)

Mistletoe, Insects Associated With The European, Album, Viscum, Ukraine, In Western Part Of, Zamoroka, A Pilot Study A. M., Shparyk, V. Yu., Dovhaniuk, I. Ya. & Varga, O. O., 2023, Insects Associated with the European Mistletoe (Viscum album) in Western Ukraine: a Pilot Study, Zoodiversity 57 (5), pp. 433-450 : 439-440

Eusandalum inerme (Ratzeburg, 1848)

R e a r e d m a t e r i a l. Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Tsenzhiv , 28.02.2014, 1 specimen, ex larva (A. Zamoroka & V. Shparyk) ( PUIF) .

Biology. Eusandalum inerme is a primary parasitoid on wide range of xylophagous Coleoptera larvae (e. g., Anobiidae , Bostrichidae , Buprestidae , Cerambycidae , Lucanidae , Lyctidae , Scolytinae ) ( Bouček, 1967; Noyes, 2018). The association of E. inerme with insect communities on V. album was previously unknown.

Eurytomidae

Eurytoma tilicola Hedquist, 1966

R e a r e d m a t e r i a l. Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Sokil , 13.10.2013, 10 specimens, ex larva ; Maydan , 28.02.2014, 1 specimen, ex larva ; Ivano-Frankivsk, 16.02.2014, 11 specimens, ex larva (A. Zamoroka & V. Shparyk) ( PUIF) .

B i o l o g y. Larvae are the primary ectoparasitoids of S. ferrea larvae ( Zerova, 2010). The association of E. tilicola with insect communities on V. album was previously unknown.

Ichneumonidae

Dolichomitus agnoscendus (Roman, 1939)

Reared material. Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Tsenzhiv , 28.02.2014, 17 specimens, ex larva

(A. Zamoroka & V. Shparyk) (PUIF).

Biology. Larvae are the primary idiobiont ectoparasitoids of wood-boring beetles, mainly on Cerambycidae (Varga, 2012, 2014). The association of D. agnoscendus with insect communities on V. album was previously unknown.

Platygastridae

Synopeas sp.

Reared material. Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Tsenzhiv , 28.02.2014, 6 specimens, ex larva

(A. Zamoroka & V. Shparyk) (PUIF).

Biology. Larvae are solitary koinobiont endoparasitoids ovipositing inside the eggs or newly hatched larvae of gall midges ( Diptera , Cecidomyiidae ) ( Abram et al., 2012). We reared several specimens of Cecidomyiid from the species A. viscicola the monophagous specialist of V. album . The association of Synopeas sp. with insect communities on Viscum album was previously unknown.

Pteromalidae

Aggelma sp.

R e a r e d m a t e r i a l. Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Sokil , 13.10.2013, 1 specimen, ex larva (A. Zamoroka & V. Shparyk) ( PUIF) .

Biology. Unknown. Aggelma sp. might be a primary parasitoid of E. tiliae . The association of Aggelma sp. with insect communities on V. album was previously unknown.