Vilpianus galii Wolff, 1802

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

Vilpianus galii Wolff, 1802

Fig. 3

Material examined.

GEORGIA • 3 specimens; Gori ; 41.9810, 44.0789; 650 m a. s. l.; 15. July 2021; leg. N. Bulbulashvili; on Gallium sp. in steppe; CaBOL-IDs 1011597, 1011598, 1011599 .

Barcoding.

A single barcode was obtained from the specimen with CaBOL-ID 1011597 ( BOLD: AGA 7433), which had the best match with the nearest neighbor in BOLD Systems being V. galii from Austria with a private status (p - distance 1.99 %).

Remarks.

From the adjacent territories, V. galii has been previously reported from Russia (Stavropol Krai), Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia ( Fent 2010; Kıyak and Akar 2010; Grebennikov and Anikin 2020; Fent and Dursun 2022; Iskandarov et al. 2022). The species is considered Mediterranean-Iranian-Turanian ( Gapon 2014; Meral and Dursun 2022), where it’s found on Gallium sp. Unlike the fluid movement typical for most of the pentatomids, V. galii locomotion is characterized by “ jerky ” movements (personal observation).

Figures

Figures 1–7. Dimorphopterus blissoides (1). Holcogaster fibulata (2). Vilpianus galii (3). Holotrichius bergrothi (4). Reduvius ciliatus (5). Oncocephalus squalidus (6). Psacasta neglecta (7). Scale bars: 1 mm.