First record of 15 species of Hemiptera (Hexapoda, Insecta) in Georgia Author Chitadze, Beka 0000-0001-7311-5827 Institute of Ecology, Ilia State University, Cholokashvili av. 3 / 5 Tbilisi, 0162, Georgia Author Bulbulashvili, Natalia 0000-0002-6802-1209 Rustaveli st. 8, 1400, Gori, Georgia Author Japaridze, Lasha-Giorgi 0000-0001-7171-5589 David Reqtori 1 st. 55, 2200, Telavi, Georgia Author Drogvalenko, Alexander 0000-0001-9855-8421 Museum of Nature V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 8 Trinkler Street, 61058, Kharkiv, Ukraine Author Moulet, Pierre Museum Requien, 67 rue Joseph Vernet, F- 84000 Avignon, France Author Seropian, Armen 0000-0003-3777-9954 Institute of Ecology, Ilia State University, Cholokashvili av. 3 / 5 Tbilisi, 0162, Georgia text Caucasiana 2024 2024-09-02 3 127 143 journal article 10.3897/caucasiana.3.e124994 1C352453-E312-4643-9A55-CF32DFF60BC7 Dimorphopterus blissoides (Baerensprung, 1859) Fig. 1 Material examined. GEORGIA • 4 specimens ; Dighomi park ( Tbilisi ); 41.7686 , 44.7740 ; 428 m a. s. l. ; 3. October 2021 ; leg. A. Seropian ; on Phragmites sp. ; CaBOL-IDs 1010339, 1010342, 1010399, 1010425 . Barcoding. A single barcode was obtained from the specimen with CaBOL-ID 1010399 ( BOLD : AFZ 7676), with the nearest neighbor in BOLD Systems being Dimorphopterus spinolae (Signoret, 1857) from Austria with a private status ( p - distance 3.21 %). There are no barcodes of D. blissoides available in BOLD Systems as we submitted the first one. Remarks. From the neighboring countries, D. blissoides has been previously reported from Armenia , Azerbaijan , Turkey , and the Russian Federation (Neimarovets 2010; Grebennikov and Anikin 2020 ; Kment et al. 2023 ). The distribution of the species covers the Ponto-Mediterranean region ( Linnavuori 1995 ; Kment et al. 2023 ). It is associated with common reeds ( Phragmites australis ) in the sheaths of dry leaves and in the cavities of broken stems, where adults and larvae of older stages hibernate. In the spring, the bugs move to the growing young shoots, gathering 2-6 or more in the sheaths of the leaves of the preapical node or among the semi-opened leaves at the top of the shoots, where they remain until the end of their lives ( Putshkov 1969 ; Kment et al. 2023 ). 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.