Sycorax caucasica Jezek , 1990

Jezek, Jan, Manko, Peter & Obona, Jozef, 2021, Psychodidae (Diptera) of Azerbaijan and Georgia - faunistics with biodiversity notes, ZooKeys 1049, pp. 15-42 : 15

Sycorax caucasica Jezek, 1990

Material examined.

Georgia: G 13, 8.7.2019 (Fig. 2 ), 1♂, slide Inv. No. 25630, leg. PM, GV .

Distribution.

Caucasian species, not rare in Abkhazia ( Ježek 1990 a).

Note.

Species known only from the original description from Abkhazia ( Ježek 1990 a). First record since the original description, first record from Georgia, from a territory other than Abkhazia. Although this is a typical mountain species (elevation of ca. 2000 m a.s.l.), it is also known from the small hills ( Ježek 1990 a) and foothills of the Greater Caucasus (see above).

Figures

Figure 2. Occurrence of individual species on a map of the area of interest. Different colours (altitude) indicate the elevation in m a. s. l. and different symbols mark the sampling sites with occurrence of the species. When species co-occurred at the locality, an offset is shown in the legend and described in the Materials and methods. The number of sites where the species is present is given in brackets.