Gastracanthus Westwood, 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 : 58

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.17109/AZH.68.1.53.2022
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scientific name	Gastracanthus Westwood, 1833
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Genus Gastracanthus Westwood, 1833 View in CoL View at ENA

Gastracanthus pulcherrimus Westwood, 1833 **

Material: GEORGIA – 1 f, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.882783°N 46.321886°E, alt GoogleMaps .

1841 m, 25 May–4 Jun. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H4, deposited in MZBBU.

Biology: may often be found on the foliage of Corylus avellana L. ( GRAHAM 1969) and in the nearby vegetation of dead wood in Querceto -Carpinetum forest undergrowth (pers. obs.). Enumerated primary hosts belong to Buprestidae and Byrrhidae ( NOYES 2019) .

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