Deraeocoris ventralis ventralis Reuter, 1904

Chitadze, Beka, Bulbulashvili, Natalia, Japaridze, Lasha-Giorgi, Drogvalenko, Alexander, Moulet, Pierre & Seropian, Armen, 2024, First record of 15 species of Hemiptera (Hexapoda, Insecta) in Georgia, Caucasiana 3, pp. 127-143 : 127-143

Deraeocoris ventralis ventralis Reuter, 1904

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Material examined.

GEORGIA • 3 specimens; Tbilisi ; 41.7707, 44.7671; 449 m a. s. l.; 22. May 2022; leg. N. Bulbulashvili; on Artemisia sp. ; CaBOL-IDs 1025469, 1025470, 1025471 .

Barcoding.

Three identical barcodes were obtained from the specimens with CaBOL-IDs 1025469, 1025470, and 1025471 ( BOLD: AFB 2062), with the nearest neighbor in BOLD Systems being D. ventralis from Austria with a private status (mean p - distance 0.92 %).

Remarks.

From the neighboring countries, D. ventralis has been previously reported from Turkey, Russia (Central European Territory, East Siberia, South European Territory, West Siberia), Armenia, and Azerbaijan ( Aukema and Rieger 1999; Yazici et al. 2019; Vinokurov and Rudoi 2020). The species is considered to be Euro-Siberian ( Vinokurov and Rudoi 2020).