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
Athysanus quadrum
Boheman,
1845
(
Fig.
2
G
)
First record from
Switzerland
:
Valais
,
south-east of Hérémence, south-east of Euseigne, extensively managed meadows at subalpine level that received different amount of water and irrigation since
2011
[
46
°
10
’09’’ N
;
7
°
25
’
27
’’ E
,
1028 m
],
1
♂
, larvae,
28.06
.2012
,
1 ♀
,
10.09
.
2012
,
D-vac
, leg.
Aline Andrey
, det.
Gernot Kunz
.
Distribution in Europe
:Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Belarus, France, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland.
Remarks
:
A. quadrum
needs sunny, moist to wet, usually mesotrophic sites, mainly calcareous sedge fens and non-fertilized peat and straw meadows (Nickel
2002
). Recent findings in Austria support
Lysimachia vulgaris
as being the host plant of this leafhopper (Nickel &Kunz unpubl.).