Holcogaster fibulata (Germar, 1831)

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

Holcogaster fibulata (Germar, 1831)

Fig. 2

Material examined.

GEORGIA • 1 specimen; Tbilisi ; 41.7671, 44.7708; 432 m a. s. l.; 21. August 2021; leg. A. Seropian and N. Bulbulashvili; on a tree trunk in the deciduous forest; CaBOL-ID 1012528 . • 1 specimen; Tbilisi ; E 41.7063, 44.7508; 739 m a. s. l.; 08. May 2021; leg. A. Seropian and N. Bulbulashvili; on Pinus sp. CaBOL-ID 1011717 and 1012528 .

Barcoding.

Two identical barcodes were obtained from the specimens with CaBOL-IDs 1012528 and 1011717 ( BOLD: ACS 3305), with the nearest neighbor in BOLD Systems being H. fibulata from France ( BOLD: ACS 3305, p - distance 0.31 %).

Remarks.

From the neighboring countries, H. fibulata has been previously reported in Turkey, and Iraq ( Ribes and Gapon 2006; Matocq et al. 2014; Çerçi and Özgen 2021; Fent and Dursun 2022). The species is originally Holomediterranean, currently spreading, e. g., in central Europe ( Ribes and Pagola-Carte 2013).

Figures

Figures 1–7. Dimorphopterus blissoides (1). Holcogaster fibulata (2). Vilpianus galii (3). Holotrichius bergrothi (4). Reduvius ciliatus (5). Oncocephalus squalidus (6). Psacasta neglecta (7). Scale bars: 1 mm.