Miscogaster 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 : 59

Genus Miscogaster Walker, 1833

Miscogaster rufipes Walker, 1833 **

Material: GEORGIA – 2 ff, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.855848°N 46.292739°E, alt. 847 m, 5 July–25 Aug. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H2, deposited in MZBBU ; 1 f, 2 mm, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.871523°N 46.311585°E, alt. 1351 m, 15–25 July 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H3, deposited in MZBBU ; 4 ff, 2 mm, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.885674°N 46.324132°E, alt. 1902 m, 15–25 July 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H4-5, deposited in IEAUG ; 1 f, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.898092°N 46.333940°E, alt. 2230 m, 15–25 Aug. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H5, deposited in MZBBU ; 3 ff, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.906257°N 46.333441°E, alt. 2559 m, 15 June 2014 – 14 Sep. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., alpine zone (H6), deposited in IEAUG .

Biology: parasitoid of leaf-miner flies ( Diptera : Agromyzidae ) mining in several plant species from families Boraginaceae , Ranunculaceae and Urticaceae ( Graham 1969, Noyes 2019).

Distribution: widely distributed in Europe, and recorded from Kazakhstan (DZHA- NOKMEN 2005, NOYES 2019). New fom the Caucasus and Georgia.