Europiella decolor (Uhler, 1893)

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

Europiella decolor (Uhler, 1893)

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Material examined.

GEORGIA • 1 specimen; Tbilisi ; 41.7709, 44.7668; 449 m a. s. l.; 05. December 2021; leg. A. Seropian; on Artemisia sp. , steppe; CaBOL-ID 1020718 . • 2 specimens; Tbilisi ; 41.7707, 44.7671; 449 m a. s. l.; 22. May 2022; leg. N. Bulbulashvili; on Artemisia sp. in steppe; CaBOL-IDs 1025480, 1025481 .

Barcoding.

Two identical barcodes were obtained from the specimens with CaBOL-IDs 1020718 and 1025481 ( BOLD: ACY 0805), identical to E. decolor from the Netherlands with a private status in BOLD Systems.

Remarks.

From the neighboring countries, E. decolor has been previously reported from Iran ( Linnavuori and Modarres 1999; Linnavuori 2007). Its range extends from Western Europe (including Great Britain, France, and Spain) to Western Asia (including Iran), and its distribution is considered to be Holarctic in general ( Kerzhner and Josifov 1999; Aukema et al. 2013). The species is found on Artemisia , commonly referred to as a host plant ( Linnavuori 2007; Protić 2020).