Psilocera Walker, 1833

László, Zoltán, Kelemen, Tünde-Ilona & Japoshvili, George, 2022, Pteromalidae Of Lagodekhi Protected Areas With The Description Of A New Psilocera Species From Sakartvelo (Georgia), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 68 (1), pp. 53-72 : 63-64

Genus Psilocera Walker, 1833

Psilocera crassispina (Thomson, 1878) **

Material: GEORGIA – 20 mm, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.871523°N 46.311585°E, alt. 1351 m, 25 July–6 Oct. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H3, Malaise-trap, deposited in MZBBU ; 3 mm, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.885674°N 46.324132°E, alt. 1902 m, 15 July–8 Oct. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H4-5, deposited in IEAUG ; 1m, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.906257°N 46.333441°E, alt. 2559 m, 15–25 Aug. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H6, deposited in IEAUG .

Biology: there is no information. In GRAHAM’s first key (1969) there is mentioned only at P. atra Walker, 1834 from this genus that it occurs “in grassy” situations. In GRAHAM’s (1992) later key no biological information is presented. In a faunistic paper of ANDRIESCU and MITROIU (2004) the species is associated with Carduus pycnocephalus (Asteraceae) and Hordeum leparinum (Poaceae) ( NOYES 2019).

Distribution: widely distributed in Europe ( GRAHAM 1969), and also mentioned from Kazakhstan ( NOYES 2019). Not recorded from the Caucasus or Georgia until now.