Plutothrix Foerster, 1856

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

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https://doi.org/ 10.17109/AZH.68.1.53.2022

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scientific name

Plutothrix Foerster, 1856
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Genus Plutothrix Foerster, 1856 View in CoL View at ENA

Plutothrix bicolorata (Spinola, 1808) **

Material: GEORGIA – 8 ff, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.852441°N 46.287771°E, alt. 666 m, 23 Apr.–15 Aug. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., low altitude forest (H1), deposited in MZBBU GoogleMaps ; 10 ff, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.871523°N 46.311585°E, alt. 1351 m, 3 May–6 Oct. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., high-altitude forest (H3), deposited in MZBBU GoogleMaps ; 1 f, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.882783°N 46.321886°E, alt. 1841 m, 15 Aug. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H4, deposited in MZBBU GoogleMaps ; 4 ff, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.885674°N 46.324132°E, alt. 1902 m, 4 June–25 July 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H4-5, deposited in IEAUG GoogleMaps .

Biology: parasitoid of anobiid beetles ( Coleoptera : Anobiidae ) ( GRAHAM 1969). May often be found in the undergrowth of hedgerows with bushy Fabaceae (pers. obs.).

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pteromalidae

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