Gastracanthus Westwood, 1833

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 : 58

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https://doi.org/ 10.17109/AZH.68.1.53.2022

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scientific name

Gastracanthus Westwood, 1833
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Genus Gastracanthus Westwood, 1833 View in CoL View at ENA

Gastracanthus pulcherrimus Westwood, 1833 **

Material: GEORGIA – 1 f, Kakheti region, Lagodekhi , 41.882783°N 46.321886°E, alt GoogleMaps .

1841 m, 25 May–4 Jun. 2014, Japoshvili G. leg., H4, deposited in MZBBU.

Biology: may often be found on the foliage of Corylus avellana L. ( GRAHAM 1969) and in the nearby vegetation of dead wood in Querceto -Carpinetum forest undergrowth (pers. obs.). Enumerated primary hosts belong to Buprestidae and Byrrhidae ( NOYES 2019) .

Distribution: widely distributed in Europe ( GRAHAM 1969, NOYES 2019). Not recorded from the Caucasus or Georgia until now.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pteromalidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pteromalidae

Genus

Gastracanthus

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