Trypetimorpha occidentalis Huang & Bourgoin, 1993

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

Trypetimorpha occidentalis Huang & Bourgoin, 1993

For the image, see Suppl. material 1

Material examined.

GEORGIA • 3 specimens; Dighomi park (Tbilisi); 41.7695, 44.7737; 426 m a. s. l.; 31 Jul. 2021; leg. A. Seropian; in vegetation near the ground; CaBOL-IDs 1011721, 1011733, 1011745 .

Barcoding.

Three barcodes were obtained from the specimens with CaBOL-IDs 1011721, 1011733, and 1011745 ( BOLD: ACP 5742, maximum p - distance 0.15 %), with the nearest neighbor in BOLD Systems being T. occidentalis from Kazakhstan ( BOLD: ACP 5742) (mean p - distance 0.61 %).

Remarks.

From the neighboring countries, T. occidentalis was previously reported from Turkey, Armenia, and Russia (Rostov Area) ( Tishechkin 2003; Karavin et al. 2021). The species is broadly distributed in the Palaearctic biogeographic realm ( Huang and Bourgoin 1993; Bourgoin 2019).