Анотація:
The fact is desctribed of finding the Balkan species of Macrophya minerva Benso n
in the south-western Ukraine. Four females of this species are found 18/V 1951 in the
environs of the village Dolinskoye, Izmail district of the Odessa region. The females are
caught at the moment of additional nutrition on the flowers of Euphorbia L., growing on
the south slope of the dry steppe narrow.
Previously the species was known by the only female (holotype) from the North-
' Eastern Greece.