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Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Eumeninae) As Hosts of Amobia Robineau‒Desvoidy, 1830 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae, Miltogramminae) in Ukraine

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Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Eumeninae) As Hosts of Amobia Robineau‒Desvoidy, 1830 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae, Miltogramminae) in Ukraine Yuri G. Verves and Yuri V. Protsenko 39 Potter Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Eumeninae) as Hosts of Amobia Robineau‒Desvoidy, 1830 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae, Miltogramminae) in Ukraine Yuri G. Verves1* and Yuri V. Protsenko2 Abestract: Amobia signata (Meigen, 1824) subpolar regions to the tropics. The species was reared from the nests of eumenine wasps of this genus are specialized in consistently Symmorphus bifasciatus (Linnaeus, 1761), attacking the nests of Vespidae and Sphecidae Discoelius zonalis (Panzer, 1801), and Amobia (sensu lato) in general, Predatory maggots oculata (Zetterstedt, 1844) from S. bifasciatus in feed on the food supply of the host larvae: Ukraine. Both species of wasps are the new paralized caterpillars of different Lepidoptera, hosts for those flies. A. oculata was firstly larvae of beetles (mainly Chrysomelidae and recorded from Poltava region. All recent Curculionidae) and sawflies (Hymenoptera), published data on hymenopteran hosts and adults Diptera and spiders in the nests of the distribution of both species of flies are hosts, but sometimes the larvae live in the processed and listed. solitary bees’ nests (Spofford et al., 1989; Verves and Khrokalo, 2006). Keywords: Potter wasps, Amobia, Discoelius zonalis nests in preexisting kleptoparasites, Poltava, Ukraine. cavities (burrows of xylophagous beetles in old trees and dry pones). Multicellular nests Introduction (3‒11 cells) are linear, consisting of a row of Potter, or mason wasps (Hymenoptera: several consecutive cells and a plug, which Vespidae, Eumeninae) consist of nearly 4000 closes the entering. The partitions between species and 205 genera of solitary or semisocial the cells and plug are made of a paste of insects. The species use various available reconditioned tree leaves. Prey for larvae‒ cavities (such as coleopteran burrows made paralyzed caterpillars of different species in wood, old nail holes etc) for the nest of Lepidoptera: Noctuidae (many species); construction, or they themselves build Crambidae: Patania ruralis (Scopoli, 1763); underground burrows for nesting, and aerial Gelechiidae: Cheimophila salicella Hübner, nests on the stems of grasses and shrubs (so 1801, Corcyra cephalonica (Stainton, called “clay jugs”). Each nest includes from 1866); Tortricidae: Eupoecilia ambiguella one to several brood cells. Predatory larvae (Hübner, 1796), and larvae of Pamphilius feed on provisions (beetle larvae, caterpillars, sylvaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hymenoptera: etc.), paralyzed and transported by their Pamphiliidae) (Budrienė, 2003). parents in advance. Imagoes of all known The nests of S. bifasciatus are placed species usually feed on the nectar and (rarely) in the hollow stems of plants, reed roofs, pollen of flowering plants (Blüthgen, 1961). disused plant galls of Andricus kollari The genus Amobia Robineau-Desvoidy, (Hartig, 1843) (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), 1830 contains fifteen species distributed all where the female wasp constructs a number over continents except Antarctica from the of cells, separated from each other by walls made of clay. Prey for larvae ‒ paralyzed *Corresponding author: larvae of different species of leaf beetles [email protected] (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Linaeidea 1Institute for Evolutionary Ecology, National Academy aenea (Linnaeus, 1758), Phratora laticollis of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician Lebedev Str. 37, (Suffrian, 1851), P. vitellinae (Linnaeus, Kyiv, Ukraine, 03143; 2Educational and Scientific 1758), P. vulgatissima (Linnaeus, 1758), Center “Institute of Biology and Medicine”, Taras Plagiodera versicolora (Laicharting, 1781) Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 03127, (Veenendaal and Piek, 1988; Blüthgen, 1961; Hlushkova Avenue 2, Kyiv, Ukraine, 03127. Malyshev, 1952). Amobia oculata, A. signata 40 Jordan Journal of Natural History 6, 2019 and other species of this genus are very closed with a thick cotton swab, and were similar to each other habitually and their provided with the number of the nests and reliable determination is possible only by the cells. The Eppendorf’s tubes were kept peculiarities of male postabdomen. Senior at room temperature. Adults emerged from authors made a lot of efforts to establish the cocoons in late May ‒ June. The newly- the actual determination of these species emerged imagoes were mounted on pins and eliminate taxonomic confusion in all for further identification. Dry individuals available publications (see references). The were pre-placed in desiccators for soaking present results show only verified detailed moisture. data about food composition of wasp larvae, observation administrative territories1, etc. Results Amobia oculata2 (Zetterstedt, 1844) Materials and Methods Synonym: Pachyophthalmus distortus Allen, The nests of the waspsDiscoelius 1926. zonalis (Panzer, 1801) and Symmorphus Material examined: 1♂1♀, and 2 ♂, bred bifasciatus (Linnaeus, 1761) were selected as from two nests of Symmorphus bifasciatus. objects for the study. The field studies took Distribution Nearctic: Canada: British Columbia place at bushes and meadows in Poltava (Allen, 1926), Labrador (Allen, 1926), New Region, Pyriatin District, Leliaky village, Brunswick (Allen, 1926), Ontario (Criddle, 50°18’N, 32°31’E. Laboratory investigations 1927); USA: Arizona (Pape, 1996), California of the hymenopteran nests were performed at (Pape, 1996), Colorado (Pape, 1996), the Faculty of Biology, Kyiv Taras Shevchenko Georgia (Allen, 1926), Kansas (Byers, 1962), National University, and the determination Maine (Pape, 1996), Maryland (Allen, 1926), of the flies ‒ took place at the Institute for Minnesota (Allen, 1926), Missouri (Rau, Evolutionary Ecology, National Academy of 1928), New Hampshire (Allen, 1926), New Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv. York (Allen, 1926), North Carolina (Pape, Both species are able to nest in 1996), Pennsylvania (Allen, 1926), Wisconsin artificial reed nests. Such nests were installed (Medler, 1965), Wyoming (Evans, 1973). to attract the hymenopteran insects. They Palaearctic: Algeria (Séguy, 1941); Belarus were bound in bunches of trimming hollow (Verves, 1986); Croatia (Pape, 1996); stems of cane, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Czech Republic: Bohemia (Povolný and Trin. ex Steud., 1841, elderberry or raspberry Verves, 1997), Moravia (Jacentkovský, of 25 cm long and 4 to 9 mm in diameter. 1941); Estonia (Draber-Monko, 1966); The nests were established during May Finland (Pohjoismäki and Kahanpää, 2014); Germany (Verves, 1986); Italy: mainland and June on different substrates, and were (Verves, 1986); Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu, collected in October for further study under Kyushu, Tsushima Is. (Kurahashi and laboratory conditions. The study of the Kakinuma, 2015); Kazakhstan (Verves, nests, and their structure, and the species 1984); Lithuania (Pakalniškis and Podénas, composition of settlers were conducted in 1992); Mongolia (Rohdendorf and Verves, laboratory conditions in winter. A cane stem 1980); North Korea (Verves, 1986); Norway was cut along by a stationery knife. After full (Rognes, 1986); Poland (Draber-Mońko, opening, each nest was sketching out in the 2007); Russia: European part: Leningrad form of a full-size scheme on a separate sheet (Stackelberg, 1962), Rostov (Minoranski et of paper. Measurements were made using al., 1970), Voroniezh (Khitzova, 1967), West Siberia: Altai (Verves and Khrokalo, 2006); calipers. The insect cocoons were removed East Siberia: Chita (Kolomietz, 1966), Far from the scattered reed and were placed East: Amur (Artamonov, 1993), Khabarovsk in Eppendorf’s tubes, of a 2 ml volume, (Verves and Khrokalo, 2006), Primorie (Khitzova, 1977); Slovakia (Čepelák, 1986); 1The faunistic data missing from the catalog (Pape, 1996) are shown in bold. 2 Firstly recorded from the Poltava region. Yuri G. Verves and Yuri V. Protsenko 41 Spain (Carles-Tolrá, 2002); Sweden (Verves, [Rosenheim, 1990]. 1986); Turkey (Kara and Pape, 2002); Pararrhynchium ornatum (Smith, 1852) Ukraine: Cherkasy (Verves, 1998), Chernigiv [Itino, 1988, 1997]. (Stackelberg, 1962), Dnipro (Verves, 1975, Rhynchium fukaii Cameron, 1911 [Kurahashi, 2000), Donetzk (Minoranski et al., 1970), 1973, as „Rhynchium haemorrhoidale fukaii Kyiv (Verves, 1975), Poltava1. Cameron“; Yamane, 1990]. Oriental: Nepal (Pape, 1996); Taiwan Stenodynerus frauenfeldi (Saussure, 1867) (Kurahashi, 1974). [Iwata, 1963, 1980; Kurahashi, 1973; Yamane, Comments: The faunistic data from China 1990]. on “Amobia oculata” sensu Fan & Pape, 1996: Symmorphus albomarginatus (Saussure, 138, are really on Amobia quatei Kurahashi, 1855) [Krombein, 1967]. 1974 (Zhang et al., 2011). S. captivus (Smith, 1873) [Kurahashi, 1973]. S. crassicornis (Panzer,1798) [as „Odynerus 3 Data on hymenopterean hosts (in list) crassicornis“: Draber-Mońko, 1964, 1966; Vespidae (Eumeninae) Mihályi, 1979]. Ancistrocerus adiabatus (Saussure, 1853) S. cristatus (Saussure, 1853) [Evans, 1973; [Evans, 1973; Krombein, 1967; Pickering, Krombein, 1967; Pickering, 2009, as 2009, as “Ancistrocerus adiabatus adiabatus “Symmorphus cristatus cristatus (Saussure)”]. (Saussure)”]. Apoidea (Sphecidae, sensu lato) A. antilope (Panzer, 1789) [Ashmead, 1894; Ammophila sabulosa (Linnaeus, 1758) Fateryga, 2013; Krombein, 1967, 1979; [Artamonov, 1988; Casiraghi et al., 2001; Pickering, 2009, as” Ancistrocerus antilope Field, 1992a, b; Pulawski, 2020]. antilope (Pz.)”]. Cerceris halone Banks, 1912 [Byers, 1962, A. catskill (Saussure, 1853) [Buck et al., 2008; 1978; Jobin and Perron, 2009; Krombein, Fye, 1965; Krombein, 1967, 1989]. 1958]. A . flavomarginatus
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