Leptopus hispanus Rambur, 1840

Chitadze, Beka, Arsenashvili, Eka & Bulbulashvili, Natalia, 2023, Leptopus hispanus and Erianotus lanosus: the first DNA-assisted records of Leptopodidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) for the fauna of Georgia, Caucasiana 2, pp. 25-28 : 25

Leptopus hispanus Rambur, 1840

Materials examined.

• 2 specimens; Telovani ; N41.8044°, E44.6880°; 903 m a.s.l.; under rocks at the roadside; leg. A Seropian; 25-Jul-2021; CaBOL-IDs 1011728, 1011740 • 3 specimens; Gori ; N41.9788°, E44.0960°; 584 m a.s.l.; under rocks in steppe near Mtkvari River; leg. N Bulbulashvili; 05-Sep-2021; CaBOL-IDs 1012380, 1012392, 1012404 • 1 specimen; Kodistskaro ; N42.0116°, E44.3446°; 736 m a.s.l.; under rocks in steppe; leg. N Bulbulashvili; 03-Jun-2021; CaBOL-ID 1025745 • 1 specimen; Vardzia ; N41.3529°, E43.2518°; 1315 m a.s.l.; under rocks at Mtkvari River bank; leg. N Bulbulashvili; 13-Oct-2022; CaBOL-ID 1032753 • 1 specimen; Mashavera River ; N41.4516°, E44.4941°; 528 m a.s.l.; swept from vegetation; leg. E Arsenashvili; 25-Oct-2022; CaBOL-ID .

Genetics.

We obtained five barcodes from the specimens with CaBOL-IDs 1011728, 1011740, 1012380, 1012392 and 1012404 (BOLD:AEX9285, maximum p-distance 0.3%), with the nearest neighbor in BOLD systems being L. marmoratus (Goeze, 1778) from France with a Private status (mean p-distance 13.5%). There are no barcodes of L. hispanus in BOLD systems available at the time of pubishing.

Remarks.

From the neighboring countries L. hispanus has been previously reported from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey ( Lindskog 1995; Fent et al. 2011; Dioli et al. 2019). The species is widespread in the Palaearctic region while its general distribution is classified as Centralasiatic-Mediterranean.