New and remarkable leafhoppers and planthoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) from Switzerland
Author
Valeria Trivellone
Author
Eva Knop
Author
Tabea Turrini
Author
Line Andrey
Author
Jean-Yves Humbert
Author
Gernot Kunz
text
Mitteilungen Der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft
2015
88
273
284
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.33990
Horvathianella palliceps
(Horváth,
1897
)
(
Fig.
2
B
)
First record from
Switzerland
:
Ticino
,
Lavertezzo, Montedato, vineyard
[
46
°
10
’
47.25
’’ N
,
8
°
53
’
16.87
’’ E
,
336 m
],
5
♂♂
,
24.06
.
2011
,
10.08
.
2011
& 0
8.09
.
2011
,
D-vac
and
sweep-net
, leg. &det.
Valeria Trivellone
.
Distribution
: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Iraq, Romania, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, former Yugoslavia.
Remarks
:
Horvathianella
is amonotypic genus and is known to feed on
Chrysopogon gryllus
.In Switzerland this plant species is largely confined to xerothermic meadows and stony areas of southern parts of the country. In Swiss vineyards
C. gryllus
is quite rare and found only in steep embankments.
H. palliceps
specimens were collected in avineyard where wide stands of
C. gryllus
were recorded.