Dimorphopterus blissoides (Baerensprung, 1859)

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Material examined.

GEORGIA • 4 specimens; Dighomi park (Tbilisi); 41.7686, 44.7740; 428 m a. s. l.; 3. October 2021; leg. A. Seropian; on Phragmites sp.; CaBOL-IDs 1010339, 1010342, 1010399, 1010425 .

Barcoding.

A single barcode was obtained from the specimen with CaBOL-ID 1010399 (BOLD: AFZ 7676), with the nearest neighbor in BOLD Systems being Dimorphopterus spinolae (Signoret, 1857) from Austria with a private status (p - distance 3.21 %). There are no barcodes of D. blissoides available in BOLD Systems as we submitted the first one.

Remarks.

From the neighboring countries, D. blissoides has been previously reported from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and the Russian Federation (Neimarovets 2010; Grebennikov and Anikin 2020; Kment et al. 2023). The distribution of the species covers the Ponto-Mediterranean region (Linnavuori 1995; Kment et al. 2023). It is associated with common reeds ( Phragmites australis) in the sheaths of dry leaves and in the cavities of broken stems, where adults and larvae of older stages hibernate. In the spring, the bugs move to the growing young shoots, gathering 2-6 or more in the sheaths of the leaves of the preapical node or among the semi-opened leaves at the top of the shoots, where they remain until the end of their lives (Putshkov 1969; Kment et al. 2023).