File name: ReadMe-Abundance-and-parasitism-ver1 This (ReadMe) file was created on 2025-09-26 by Natalia I. Kirichenko and Maarten de Groot ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- Name of the dataset: Leaf Mine Abundance and Associated Parasitism in Macrosaccus robiniella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) Authors Name and surname: Natalia I. Kirichenko1,2,3*, Stanislav Gomboc4, Oksana V. Kosheleva5, Dinka Matošević6, Barbara Piškur3, Maarten de Groot3* Institution/Affiliation: (1) Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center "Krasnoyarsk Science Center SB RAS", Akademgorodok 50/28, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russia; (2) All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center (VNIIKR), Krasnoyarsk branch, st. Zhelyabova, 6/6, 660020 Krasnoyarsk, Russia; (3) Slovenian Forestry Institute, Večna pot 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; (4) Independent Researcher, Gančani, Gančani 110, 9231 Beltinci, Slovenia; (5) All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection (FSBSI VIZR), Podbelskogo 3, 196608 Saint Petersburg, Russia; (6) Croatian Forest Research Institute, Cvjetno naselje 41, 10450 Jastrebarsko, Croatia *Correspondence: Natalia Kirichenko (nkirichenko@yahoo.com), Maarten de Groot (maarten.degroot@gozdis.si) ROR organization identifier: Email: nkirichenko@yahoo.com Email: maarten.degroot@gozdis.si Date of data collection: from 2023-10-01 to 2023-10-15 Geographical location of data collection: Europe, Croatia, Krapina-Zagorje County, Kunagora (46.1622°N; 15.7452°E; 279 alt.) and Vinagora (46.1737°N; 15.7047°E; 262 m alt.) Information on the funders/programmes/projects that made the data collection possible: the core research group Forest Biology, Ecology and Technology (P4-0107) of the Slovenian Research Agency and the Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food of the Republic of Slovenia; the Russian Science Foundation (grant No. 22-16-00075) DOI 10.20315/Data.0008 License: CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en ----------------------------- SHARING/ACCESSING INFORMATION ----------------------------- Data licences/restrictions: - Links to publications that cite or use the data: Kirichenko N.I., Gomboc S., Kosheleva O.V., Matošević D., Piškur B., de Groot M. (2025) Leaf Mine Types and Associated Parasitism in the Invasive Tree Insect Pest Macrosaccus robiniella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): a Case Study from Slovenia and Croatia. South-East European Forestry 16(1): 15-25. https://doi.org/10.15177/seefor.25-08 Was the data obtained from another source? No ---------------------- VIEWING DATA AND FILES ---------------------- File list: List 1. Abundance of different leaf-mine types of Macrosaccus robiniella in Slovenia and Croatia (October 2023) List 2. Parasitism of Macrosaccus robiniella larvae and pupae across different leaf-mine types in Croatia (October 2023) Are there multiple versions of the dataset? NO -------------------------- METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION -------------------------- Description of the methods used to collect/obtain the data: Data processing methods can be found in the article: Kirichenko NI, Gomboc S, Kosheleva OV, Matošević D, Piškur B, de Groot M, 2025. Leaf Mine Types and Associated Parasitism in the Invasive Tree Insect Pest Macrosaccus robiniella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): a Case Study from Slovenia and Croatia. South-East European Forestry 16(1): 15-25. https://doi.org/10.15177/seefor.25-08 Data processing methods: see in Kirichenko NI, Gomboc S, Kosheleva OV, Matošević D, Piškur B, de Groot M, 2025. Leaf Mine Types and Associated Parasitism in the Invasive Tree Insect Pest Macrosaccus robiniella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): a Case Study from Slovenia and Croatia. South-East European Forestry 16(1): 15-25. https://doi.org/10.15177/seefor.25-08 Software information: R (R Core Team. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria, 2024. https://www.R-project.org/) Experimental conditions: field sampling ------------------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION: [FILENAME] ------------------------------------- List of variables: List 1. Abundance of leaf mines Location (country, site): Study sites in Croatia (Vinagora, Pregrada) and Slovenia (Park at the Slovenian Forestry Institute, SFI) Data: Date of collection, recorded as dd.mm.yyyy Tree No.: Identifier of the individual tree on which leaf mines were recorded (ranging from 1 to 5) Branch No.: Identifier of the branch examined on the given tree (ranging from 1 to 3) Total number of leaves on a branch: Estimated total number of leaves present on the selected branch (ranging from 13 to 47) Leaf No.: Identifier of the leaf examined on the given branch (ranging from 1 to 5) Number of compounds per leaf: Count of individual leaflets (compounds) within the selected leaf (ranging from 7 to 21) Leaf side: The side of the leaf where mines were detected (upper or lower surface) Class: The specific part of the leaf where the mine was located (midrib, half of leaf blade, or edge) Number of leaf mines: Total number of mines observed on the individual leaf List 2: Parasitism No.: Case identifier number Mine type: Categorization of mine location and form (1 – lower-side mine along the leaf edge (Obolodiplosis-like); 2 – upper-side mine above the main vein; 3 – lower-side mine on half of the leaf blade) Number of parasitoids emerged: Count of parasitoid adults that emerged from Macrosaccus robiniella larvae and pupae Number of moths emerged: Count of Macrosaccus robiniella adults that emerged from leaf mines Number of dead Macrosaccus robiniella pupae due to unknown reason: Count of M. robiniella pupae that died in leaf mines due to unidentified reasons