Spathius sp.

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 : 438

Spathius sp.

R e a r e d m a t e r i a l. Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Ivano-Frankivsk, 16.02.2014, 1 specimen, ex larva

(A. Zamoroka) (PUIF).

Biology. Larvae of Spathius sp. are primary parasitoids of Cerambycidae and Curculionidae larvae, including E. tiliae . The association of Spathius sp. with insect communities of V. album was previously unknown.

Cynipidae

Phanacis sp.

R e a r e d m a t e r i a l. Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Ivano-Frankivsk, 16.02.2014, 1 specimen, ex larva

(A. Zamoroka) (PUIF).

Biology. Neither Phanacis sp. nor Aylacini were previously known to be trophically associated with the mistletoe. Here, we report the association of cynipids with V. album for the first time.

Colletidae

Hylaeus confusus Nylander, 1852

Reared material. Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Tsenzhiv , 28.02.2014, 4 specimens, ex larva

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

Biology. Hylaeus confusus is a solitary bee species nesting in the xylophagous beetles’ galleries. Here, we firstly reported nesting of H. confusus on V. album .

Eulophidae

Aprostocetus sp.

R e a r e d m a t e r i a l. Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Sokil , 13.10.2013, 5 specimens, ex larva; Maydan ,

28.02.2014, 2 specimens, ex larva; Ivano-Frankivsk , 16.02.2014, 8 specimens, ex larva (A. Zamoroka) ( PUIF) .

Biology. The species of the genus are ectoparasitoids parasitising eggs of a large of the variety of such insects as Hemiptera , Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Odonata , and Coleoptera ( Graham, 1987; Hérard et al., 2005). The association of Aprostocetus sp. with insect communities on V. album was previously unknown.