Mesosa curculionoides (Linnaeus, 1761)

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

Mesosa curculionoides (Linnaeus, 1761)

R e a r e d m a t e r i a l. Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Sokil , 13.10.2013, 2 specimens, ex larva; Maydan ,

28.02.2014, 1 specimen, ex larva (A. Zamoroka & V. Shparyk) ( PUIF) .

Biology. Larvae are polyphagous on deciduous trees. There are known observations of M. curculinoides adults feeding on fruit bodies of the saproxylic fungus Schizophyllum commune Fr. (Zamoroka & Kapeliukh, 2016) .