Sphegigaster stepicola Bouček, 1965

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

Sphegigaster stepicola Bouček, 1965 *

Material: GEORGIA – 1 m, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.882783°N 46.321886°E, alt. 1841 m, 25 May–4 June 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H4, deposited in MZBBU ; 4 ff, 2 mm, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.885674°N 46.324132°E, alt. 1902 m, 4 June–15 July 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H4-5, half deposited in MZBBU and half in IEAUG.

Biology: parasitoid of leaf-mining flies ( Diptera , Agromyzidae ), reared from Phytomyza albiceps ( GRAHAM 1969) , other Phytomyza , Agromyza , Ophiomyia and Melanagromyza species ( NOYES 2019).

Distribution: distributed in the Palearctic, including Transcaucasia ( BOUČEK 1977) and South Asia including India and Thailand ( NOYES 2019). New for Georgia.