Leiopus femoratus Fairmaire, 1859

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 : 435

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15407/zoo2023.05.433
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10166256
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F58794-FFC1-9922-FF71-2DAEFB1A7024
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Leiopus femoratus Fairmaire, 1859
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Leiopus femoratus Fairmaire, 1859 View in CoL

R e a r e d m a t e r i a l. Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Sokil , 13.10.2013, 100 specimens, ex larva, Maydan, 28.02.2014, 29 specimens, ex larva ; Ivano-Frankivsk, 16.02.2014, 262 specimens, ex larva ; Tsenzhiv , 28.02.2014, 14 specimens, ex larva (A. Zamoroka & V. Shparyk) ( PUIF) .

Biology. An invasive Mediterranean species that is expanding its range northwards (Zamoroka & Kapeliukh, 2012; Zamoroka, 2022). The larvae are polyphagous on deciduous trees. Viscum album is a new and previously unknown food plant for L. femoratus . Adults probably feed on phloem of twigs and thin branches (Zamoroka & Kapeliukh, 2016).