Tuponia mixticolor (A. Costa, 1862)

Chitadze, Beka, Bulbulashvili, Natalia, Japaridze, Lasha-Giorgi, Drogvalenko, Alexander, Moulet, Pierre & Seropian, Armen, 2024, First record of 15 species of Hemiptera (Hexapoda, Insecta) in Georgia, Caucasiana 3, pp. 127-143 : 127-143

Tuponia mixticolor (A. Costa, 1862)

For the image, see Suppl. material 1

Material examined.

GEORGIA • 3 specimens; Kumisi lake vicinity ; 41.6027, 44.8163; 494 m a. s. l.; 24. September 2021; leg. A. Seropian; on Tamarix sp. ; CaBOL-IDs 1016838, 1016839, 1016840 .

Barcoding.

Three barcodes were obtained from the specimens with CaBOL-IDs 1016838, 1016839, and 1016840 ( BOLD: AFX 3631; maximum within-barcode p - distance 0.15 %), with the nearest neighbor in BOLD Systems being Campylomma sp. from Austria with a private status (mean p - distance 5.96 %). There are no barcodes of T. mixticolor in BOLD systems as we submit the first ones.

Remarks.

From the neighboring countries, T. mixticolor has been previously reported from Iran and Russia (Astrakhan) ( Drapolyuk 1980; Linnavuori 2007, 2010). The species is distributed in Western Palaearctic and tropical Africa ( Cabo Verde, Sudan) ( Aukema and Rieger 1999). T. mixticolor is found on the Tamarix species ( Gravestein 1978; Aukema et al. 2019).