Giorgi KIRKITADZE, Marine BATSANKALASHVILI, Meri SALAKAIA, George JAPOSHVILI

List of encyrtids (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from subalpine and alpine zones of Lagodekhi protected areas with new records from Georgia and Transcaucasia

Two genera,CoelopencyrtusTimberlake, 1919 andMayrencyrtusHincks, 1944, are reported here for the first time fromTranscaucasia. Fourteen new records of encyrtid species from Georgia are reported. Except for 4 species ( Bothriothorax aralius(Walker,1837);B. clavicornis(Dalman, 1820);B. trichopsThomson, 1876; andCheiloneurus submuticusThomson, 1876), all species are recordedfor the first time from Transcaucasia.

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