Ermolaev I.V.1,2*, Yefremova Z.A.3, Kasparyan D.R.4, Belokobylskij S.A.4* 2025. Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae, Braconidae, Ichneumonidae) in the leaf blotch miner moth Acrocercops brongniardella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) of the Voronezh State Nature Biosphere Reserve // Russian Entomol. J. Vol.34. No.1: 109–115 [in English].
1 Botanic Garden Institute, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 8 Marta str. 202a, Ekaterinburg 620130 Russia.
2 Udmurt State University, Izhevsk 426034 Russia.
3 The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978 Israel.
4 Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb. 1, St Petersburg 199034 Russia.
Ivan Ermolaev ermolaev-i@yandex.ru ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0010-6361
Zoya Yefremova zyefremova@gmail.com ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5572-2332
Dmitry Kasparyan kasparyan@yandex.ru ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9943-122X
Sergei Belokobylskij doryctes@gmail.com ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3646-3459
* corresponding co-authors
doi: 10.15298/rusentj.34.1.12
ABSTRACT. The assemblage of hymenopteran parasitoids of larvae and pupae of the leaf blotch miner moth Acrocercops brongniardella (Fabricius, 1798) (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) developing on the oak (Quercus robur) was studied in the Voronezh State Nature Biosphere Reserve during 2021−2022. Thirteen species of A. brongniardella parasitoids, Elachertus inunctus, Sympiesis sp., S. gordius, S. sericeicornis, Chrysocharis laomedon, Minotetrastichus frontalis (Eulophidae), Rhysipolis decorator, Dolichogenidea dilecta (Braconidae), Eudelus sp., Mesochorus formosus, Itoplectis clavicornis, Gelis areator, G. parens (Ichneumonidae), were identified. Five species of them, Ch. laomedon, M. formosus, I. clavicornis, G. areator, and G. parens were recorded as the parasitoids of this miner for the first time. The mortality of A. brongniardella premature stages from parasitoids was 8.7 (2021) and 32.6% (2022).
KEY WORDS: Chalcidoidea, Ichneumonoidea, parasitoid, rate of parasitism.