Trigonoderus Westwood, 1832

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 : 60-61

Genus Trigonoderus Westwood, 1832

Trigonoderus cyanescens (Förster, 1841) ** ( Fig. 3a )

Material: GEORGIA – 1 f, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.852441°N 46.287771°E, alt. 666 m, 5–14 Sep. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H1, Malaise-trap, deposited in MZBBU ; 1 f, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.855848°N 46.292739°E, alt. 847 m, 5–15 July 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H2, Malaise-trap, deposited in MZBBU ; 5 f, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.871523°N 46.311585°E, alt. 1351 m, 5 May–14 Sep. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H3, Malaisetrap, two specimens deposited in MZBBU , three specimens deposited in IEAUG .

Biology: parasitoid of Pogonocherus hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758) ( TUDOR 1971, LÁSZLÓ et al. 2013). Usually found in forest floor in oak-hornbeam forests.

Distribution: widely distributed in Europe. New for the Caucasus and Georgia.

Figures

Fig. 3. Lateral view of species belonging to the genus Trigonoderus Westwood, 1832 collected in the Lagodekhi protected areas: a = Trigonoderus cyanescens (Förster, 1841), b = T.