Trigonoderus princeps 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 : 61

Trigonoderus princeps Westwood, 1832 *

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Material: GEORGIA – 1 f, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.852441°N 46.287771°E, alt. 666 m, 8–15 Aug. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H1, deposited in IEAUG ; 2 ff, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.855848°N 46.292739°E, alt. 847 m, 4–25 June 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H2, deposited in MZBBU .

Biology: parasitoid of xylophagous beetles: Scolytus ratzeburgi Janson, 1856 (Coleptera, Scolytidae ) in birch ( Betula sp. ) and Parmena balteus (Linnaeus, 1767) ( Coleoptera , Cerambycidae ) in alder ( Alnus glutinosa ) ( KERRICH & GRAHAM 1957, GRAHAM 1969).

Distribution: widely distributed in Europe, but also reported from Japan, and the Russian Federation ( NOYES 2019). Recorded from the Caucasus ( BOUČEK 1977), but not from Georgia until now.

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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.