INSECTS ASSOCIATED WITH WILD PLANTS IN EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST 27 



Table 2.— Selected weedy plants and associated insects, extent of their association, and country of 



origin— Continued ^^_ 



Insect-plant 

 Plant and insect 1 relationship 2 Country 



Senecio jacobaea L.:— Continued 



Sitona lineatus (L.) [Curculionidae, CO] Resting on roots Do. 



Sphaerophoria rueppelli Wiedemann [Syrphidae, DI] Italy. 



Sphenella marginata (Fallen) [Tephritidae, DI] Reared from head France. 



Trupanea stellata (Fuessly) [Tephritidae, DI] do Do. 



Trupanea stellata (Fuessly) [Tephritidae, DI] do Germany. 



Trupanea stellata (Fuessly) [Tephritidae, DI] 3 Italy. 



Tyria jacobaeae (L.) [Arctiidae, LE] France. 



Senecio nemorensis L.: 



Cacoecimorpha pronubana (Hiibner) [Tortricidae, LE] Reared from foliage Do. 



Senecio squalidus L.: 



Peridroma saucia (Hiibner) [Noctuidae, LE) Reared Italy. 



Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertner: 



Apion detritum Rey [Curculionidae, CO] Reared from stem Do. 



Carpocoris mediterraneus Taminini [Pentatomidae, H-HE] Resting on head Do. 



Cassida near deflorata Suffrian [Chrysomelidae, CO] Feeding on foliage Do. 



Cassida prob. vibex L. [Chrysomelidae, CO] do Do. 



Cassida prob. vibex L. [Chrysomelidae, CO] Reared from foliage Do. 



Cnepnasia sp. [Tortricidae, LE] Reared from head Do. 



Cynthia cardui (Linnaeus) [Nymphalidae, LE] Reared from foliage Turkey. 



Gastroidea polygoni (L.) [Chrysomelidae, CO] Resting on leaf Italy. 



Larinus cynarae (Fabricius) [Curculionidae, CO] Reared from head Do. 



Larinus cynarae (Fabricius) [Curculionidae, CO] Feeding on head Do. 



Lixus algirus (L.) [Curculionidae, CO] Resting on stem Do. 



Pyroderces argyrogrammos (Zeller) [Cosmopterigidae, LE] Reared from head Do. 



Rhinocyllus conicus (Froelich) [Curculionidae, CO] do Do. 



Tamarix sp.: 



Apion sp. [Curculionidae, CO] Swept from plant Turkey. 



Bruchidius near bimaculatus (Olivier) [Bruchidae, CO] do Do. 



Bruchidius near imbricornis (Panzer) [Bruchidae, CO] do Do. 



Bruchidius nudus (Allard) [Bruchidae, CO] do Do. 



Cantharis sp. [Cantharidae, CO] do Do. 



Ceratina sp. [Anthophoridae, HY] do Do. 



Chlorophanus excisus (Fabricius) [Curculionidae, CO] do Do. 



Coccinella septempunctata L. [Coccinellidae, CO] do Do. 



Coniatus sp. [Curculionidae, CO] do Do. 



Cteniopus sp. [Alleculidae, CO] do Do. 



Desmometopa near m-nigrum (Zetterstedt) [Milichiidae, DI] do Do. 



Diorhabda sp. [Chrysomelidae, CO] do Do. 



Dolycoris baccarum (L.) [Pentatomidae, H-HE] do Do. 



Hylemya sp. [Anthomyiidae, DI] do Do. 



Malachius aeneus L. [Melyridae, CO] do Do. 



Malachius sp. #1 [Melyridae, CO] do Do. 



Malachius sp. #2 [Melyridae, CO] do Do. 



Microphones sp. [Empididae, DI] do Do. 



Minettia plumicornis (Fallen) [Lauxaniidae, DI] do Do. 



Nabis viridulus Spinola [Nabidae, H-HE] do Do. 



Orthellia caesarion (Meigen) [Muscidae, DI] do Do. 



Pachybrachys sp. [Chrysomelidae, CO] do Do. 



Platypalpus sp. [Empididae, DI] do Do. 



Trixoscelis frontalis (Fallen) [Trixoscelidae, DI] do Do. 



Trixoscelis obscurella (Fallen) [Trixoscelidae, DI] do Do. 



Valgus hemipterus L. [Scarabaeidae, CO] do Do. 



See footnotes at end of table. 



