First record of 15 species of Hemiptera (Hexapoda, Insecta) in Georgia

By

Chitadze, Beka
Bulbulashvili, Natalia
Japaridze, Lasha-Giorgi
Drogvalenko, Alexander
Moulet, Pierre
Seropian, Armen

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024-9-2

Original Publication

Caucasiana : journal on the biodiversity of the Caucasus and the adjacent regions

Volume

3

Pages

127--143

Subjects

Auchenorrhyncha , CaBOL , Entomology , Faunistics , Heteroptera , new records , South Caucasus

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[Sofia, Bulgaria] Pensoft 2022-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/caucasiana.3.e124994

 

Abstract

During the fieldworks conducted within the CaBOL project in 2020–2023, 14 new species of Heteroptera belonging to seven families, and a new species of Auchenorrhyncha were collected in Georgia for the first time: Trypetimorpha occidentalis Huang & Bourgoin, 1993 (Tropiduchidae), Dimorphopterus blissoides (Baerensprung, 1859) (Blissidae), Europiella decolor (Uhler, 1893), Tuponia mixticolor (A. Costa, 1862), Deraeocoris ventralis Reuter, 1904, Orthocephalus brevis (Panzer, 1798) (Miridae), Alloeorhynchus flavipes (Fieber, 1836) (Nabidae), Holcogaster fibulata (Germar, 1831), Vilpianus galii Wolff, 1802 (Pentatomidae), Holotrichius bergrothi Reuter, 1891, Reduvius ciliatus Jakovlev, 1879, Oncocephalus squalidus (Rossi, 1790) (Reduviidae), Pterotmetus staphyliniformis (Germar, 1831), Diomphalus hispidulus Fieber, 1864 (Rhyparochromidae), and Psacasta neglecta (Herrich-Schäffer, 1837) (Scutellaridae). The present study provides distributional, genetic, and collecting information on the newly recorded species followed by remarks.