Vilpianus galii Wolff 1802

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).