© Benaki Phytopathological Institute
Hellenic Plant Protection Journal
11:
54-58, 2018
DOI 10.2478/hppj-2018-0007
1
Benaki Phytopathological Institute, 8 St. Delta str., GR
145 61 Kifissia, Attica, Greece.
2
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Faculty of Biol-
ogy, 700505 Iasi, Romania.
* Corresponding author:
SHORT COMMUNICATION
First record of parasitoids associated with insects inhabiting
capsules of
Papaver rhoeas
in Greece
F. Karamaouna
1*
, M. Samara
1
, V. Kati
1
and M.-D. Mitroiu
2
Summary
A faunistic complex of chalcidoid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) associated with
cynipids and cecidomyids (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae; Diptera: Cecydomyiidae) inhabiting capsules of
the annual weed
Papaver rhoeas
L. (corn poppy) was recorded in Amynteo, Northern Greece (2012)
and Orchomenos, Voeotia, Central Greece (2013). The parasitoids are
Idiomacromerus papaveris
(Forst-
er, 1856),
Idiomacromerus
sp.,
Pseudotorymus papaveris
(Thomson, 1876) (Torymidae),
Aprostocetus ep-
icharmus
Walker, 1839 (Eulophidae), and
Cyrtoptyx
sp. (Pteromalidae).
Aprostocetus epicharmus
was re-
corded only in Amynteo while
Idiomacromerus
spp.
and
Cyrtoptyx
sp. only in Voeotia. This is the first
record of these parasitoid species in corn poppy capsules in Greece. All parasitoids except the eulo-
phid, which probably parasitizes Cecydomyiidae, are most likely parasitoids of
Aylax papaveris
(Perris,
1840) (Cynipidae).
Additional keywords
:
Aprostocetus epicharmus
,
Aylax papaveris
,
Cyrtoptyx
sp., gall,
Idiomacromerus papaveris
,
Pseudotorymus papaveris
Andriescu, 1962
(Hym.: Torymidae)
is
the
only parasitoid species associated with corn
poppy capsules that has been previously re-
ported in Greece (Askew
et al.,
2006).
Adult females and males of
P. papaveris
were recorded upon emergence from the
P.
rhoeas
capsules in both regions. In the cap-
sules from Amynteo, together with the par-
asitoid specimens
,
we obtained an adult
female of
Aylax papaveris
(Perris) (Hym.: Cyn-
ipidae) and found infestation by Cecidomyi-
idae larvae (Diptera), most likely
Dasineura
papaveris
Winnertz.
Pseudotorymus papaveris
is probably a
parasitoid of
A. papaveris
and the cecidomy-
iid while
A. epicharmus
is a parasitoid of the
cecidomyiid (Figure 1).
Pseudotοrymus pa-
paveris
has a Palaearctic geographical dis-
tribution (Nikol’skaya and Zerova, 1978;
Grissell, 1995; Noyes, 2017). Popescu (2002)
reported the emergence of
P. papaveris
from
A. papaveris
and
D. papaveris
, infesting
P.
rhoeas
and
P. dubium
L. capsules, and from
their predator
Lestodiplosis callida
Winnertz
(Diptera: Cecidomyiidae).
Aprostocetus epic-
harmus
has been reported (as
Tetrastichus
epicharmus
(Walker)) parasitising the bras-
A complex of chalcidoids (Hymenoptera:
Chalcidoidea) was recovered from mature,
dry capsules of the winter annual weed
Pa-
paver rhoeas
L. (corn poppy, common pop-
py) (Papaveraceae), which were collected
from Amynteo, Florina, Northern Greece
in 2012, and Orchomenos, Voeotia, South-
ern Greece in 2013. The parasitoids are
Idi-
omacromerus papaveris
(Förster, 1856),
Idi-
omacromerus
sp.,
Pseudotοrymus papaveris
(Thomson, 1875) (Torymidae),
Aprostocetus
epicharmus
Walker, 1839 (Eulophidae), and
Cyrtoptyx
sp. (Pteromalidae).
Aprostocetus
epicharmus
was recorded only in Amynteo
while
Idiomacromerus
spp. and
Cyrtoptyx
sp.
only in Voeotia. Identifications of the parasi-
toids have been made based on Bouček and
Rasplus (1991) and Medvedev (1978). To our
knowledge, this is the first record in Greece
of these parasitoids occuring in corn pop-
py capsules.
Chalcimerus borceai
Steffan and
