Sphegigaster Spinola, 1811

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 : 60

Genus Sphegigaster Spinola, 1811

Sphegigaster pallicornis (Spinola, 1808) **

Material: GEORGIA – 1 f, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.852441°N 46.287771°E, alt. 666 m, 2–12 Apr. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H1, deposited in MZBBU ; 1 f, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.882783°N 46.321886°E, alt. 1841 m, 25 May–4 June 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H4, deposited in IEAUG ; 2 mm, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.885674°N 46.324132°E, alt. 1902 m, 27 Sep.–6 Oct. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H4-5, deposited in MZBBU .

Biology: parasitoid of leaf-mining flies ( Diptera , Agromyzidae ), reared from Phytomyza species ( GRAHAM 1969).

Distribution: mainly distributed in Europe, but also reported from Kazakhstan, the Nearctic and the Russian Federation ( NOYES 2019). New for the Caucasus and Georgia.