INSECTS ASSOCIATED WITH WILD PLANTS IN EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST 15 



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



Insect-plant 

 Plant and insect 1 relationship 2 Country 



Arctium minus Bernhardi: 



Cleonus piger (Scopoli) [Curculionidae, CO] Reared from root Italy. 



Boreava sp.: 



Cartallum ebulinum (L.) [Cerambycidae, CO] Sweapt from plant Turkey. 



Phyllotreta sp. [Chrysomelidae, CO] do Do. 



Carlina corymbosa L.: 



Larinus ursus (Fabricius) [Curculionidae, CO] Feeding on head Italy. 



Carlina lanata L.: 



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



Carlina vulgaris L.: 



Larinus ursus (Fabricius) [Curculionidae, CO] do Do. 



Larinus ursus (Fabricius) [Curculionidae, CO] Feeding on plant Do. 



Carthamus lanatus L.: 



Acanthiophilus helianthi (Rossi) [Tephritidae, DI] Reared from head Do. 



Eurytoma robusta Mayr [Eurytomidae, HY] do Do. 



Larinus flavescens Germar [Curculionidae, CO] do Do. 



Larinus fla vescens Germar [Curculionidae, CO] Feeding on head Do. 



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



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



Larinus rusticanus Gyllenhal [Curculionidae. CO] Resting on head Do. 



Larinus rusticanus Gyllenhal [Curculionidae, CO] Reared from head Do. 



Myelois cribrella (Hubner) [Pyralidae, LE] do Do. 



Orellia near colon (Meigen) [Tephritidae, DI] do Do. 



Porphyrinia parva (Hubner) [Noctuidae, LE] do Do. 



Pyroderces argyrogrammos (Zeller) [Cosmopterigidae, LE] do Do. 



Carthamus tinctorius L.: 



Ckaetorellia sp. [Tephritidae, DI] do Israel. 



Hylemya radicum (L.) [Anthomyiidae, DI] Swept from plant Italy. 



Centaurea amara L.: 



Acanthiophilus helianthi (Rossi) [Tephritidae, DI] Reared from head Do. 



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



Chaetorellia sp. [Tephritidae, DI] do Do. 



Isocolus scabiosae (Giraud) [Cynipidae, HY] Reared from head Do. 



Larinus planus (Fabricius) [Curculionidae, CO] do Do. 



Lasioderma prob. obscurum Solsky [Anobiidae, CO] do Do. 



Ormyrus punctiger Westwood [Ormyridae, HY] do Do. 



Porphyrinia parva (Hubner) [Noctuidae, LE] do Do. 



Porphyrinia parva (Hubner) [Noctuidae, LE] Reared from plant Do. 



Prodotis stolida (Fabricius) [Noctuidae, LE] Reared from foliage Do. 



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



Scymnus sp. [Coccinellidae, CO] On plant Do. 



Sibinia attalica (Gyllenhal) [Curculionidae, CO] Reared from head Do. 



Urophora prob. quadrifasciata (Meigen) [Tephritidae, DI] do Do. 



Centaurea caerulescens Willdenow: 



Acanthiophilus helianthi (Rossi) [Tephritidae, DI] do Iran. 



Divales bipustulata Fabricius [Melyridae, CO] Resting on plant Italy. 



Divales sp. [Melyridae, CO] do Do. 



Eudecatoma biguttata Swederus or E. submutica (Thomson) 



[Eurytomidae, HY] Reared from head Do. 



Eudecatoma submutica (Thomson) [Eurytomidae, HY] do Do. 



Eurytoma robusta Mayr [Eurytomidae, HY] do Do. 



Eurytoma tibialis Boheman [Eurytomidae, HY] do Do. 



Isocolus scabiosae (Giraud) [Cynipidae, HY] do Do. 



See footnotes at end of table. 



