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The longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of National Park … 131
Kremenets (50.092709, 25.695936) in locality "Buchyna". It represents 110 years old beech
forest (square 46, part 12, Masliatyn Division) (Fig. 2, C). Plot 2 is located east from
Kremenets in locality "Hora Divochi Skeli" (50.118299, 25.727369). It represents steppe
with mosaic spreading of thermophilous brushwood (square 3, parts 11-13, Bilokrynytsya
Division) (Fig. 2, F).
Figure 2. The main types of habitats of National Park «Kremenetski Hory»:
A. Typical landscape of Kremenetski Hory; B. Steppe patch in locality "Hora Strakhova"; C.
Old-aged beech forest in Maslyatyn Division; D. Thermophilous brushwood with Betula
klokovii in locality "Hora Strakhova"; E. Hornbeam-Oak forest in Bilokrynytsya Division;
F. Petrophilous steppe in locality "Divochi Skeli".
Plot 3 is located south from Bilokrynytsya (50.120639, 25.754796). It represents 130
years old oak forest (square 29, part 4, Bilokrynytsya Division) (Fig. 2, E). Plot 4 is located
south west from Lishnya in locality "Lypova Aleya" (50.143402, 25.809021). It represents
mesophilous meadows and abandoned fruit gardens surrounded by hornbeam-oak forests
(square 36, part 11, Bilokrynytsya Division).
The multiple methods of insects collecting were applied. These include manual
collecting of the longhorn beetles on forage plants; on host plants during imago emerging
from pupae chambers, adults mating and females ovipositing; sweeping insects out of
grasslands vegetation, forest edges and clearings. Collected materials deposited in NP
"Kremenetski Hory" (Kremenets) and Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University
(Ivano-Frankivsk). Insects sampling were carried under the limits set by Ministry of Ecology