Oodera Westwood, 1874

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 : 58

Genus Oodera Westwood, 1874

Oodera formosa (Giraud, 1863) *

( Fig. 2c, d )

Material: GEORGIA – 1 f, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.855848°N 46.292739°E, alt. 847 m, 15–25 Jul. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H2, deposited in MZBBU ; 1 f, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.882783°N 46.321886°E, alt. 1841 m, 15–27 Sep. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H4, deposited in IEAUG .

Biology: parasitoid of xylophagous beetles, mainly from families Buprestidae and Scolytidae ( BOUČEK & RASPLUS 1991) . The taxonomic placement of the genus Oodera is still not clearly defined, momentarily being placed into the family Pteromalidae ( HERATY et al. 2013, WERNER & PETERS 2018).

Distribution: with Palearctic distribution, known from Europe and Russian Federation, also from the Caucasus, but not recorded in Georgia until now ( NOYES 2019).

Figures

Fig. 2. Dorsal and lateral views of Cleonyminae species collected in the Lagodekhi protected areas: a–b = Cleonymus brevis Bouček, 1972, c–d = Oodera formosa (Giraud, 1863)