Erianotus lanosus (Dufour, 1834)

Chitadze, Beka, Arsenashvili, Eka & Bulbulashvili, Natalia, 2023, Leptopus hispanus and Erianotus lanosus: the first DNA-assisted records of Leptopodidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) for the fauna of Georgia, Caucasiana 2, pp. 25-28 : 25

Erianotus lanosus (Dufour, 1834)

Materials examined.

• 3 specimens; Gori; N41.9771°, E44.0984°; 589 m a.s.l.; under rocks in steppe near Mtkvari River ; leg. N Bulbulashvili; 10/ 11-Sep-2021; CaBOL-IDs 1012366, 1012367, 1012379 .

Genetics.

We obtained three barcodes from the specimens with CaBOL-IDs 1012366, 1012367 and 1012379 (BOLD:AEY2001, mean p-distance 1%), with the nearest neighbor in BOLD systems being Valleriola sp. from China (mean p-distance 14.6%). There are no other barcodes of E. lanosus available in BOLD systems at the time of publishing

Remarks.

From the neighbouring countries E. lanosus has been previously reported from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey ( Lindskog 1995, Fent et al. 2011). The species is widespread in the Palaearctic region while its general distribution is classified as Centralasiatic-Mediterranean.