TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TROPHIC LINKS OF LEAF-MINING INSECTS IN THE MIDDLE AND LOWER VOLGA
The article presents information on important environmental group phytophages - leafmining insects fauna of Middle and Lower Volga. The authors of the study area, more than 100 species of insects of the orders Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. The features undermines lifestyle of each group phytophages shows the ecological role of miners in the Middle and Lower Volga. The significance of the mines as an environmental microenvironment, which associated themselves undermine insects and related entomofauna parasitic insects.