Platypleura kaempferi (Fabricius, 1794)

Hertach, Thomas & Nagel, Peter, 2013, Cicadas in Switzerland: ascientific overview of the historic and current knowledge of apopular taxon (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (2), pp. 229-269 : 258

Platypleura kaempferi (Fabricius, 1794)

A single male of this common Japanese species (Hayashi & Saisho, 2011) has been captured in agarden from Gland ( VD, Lake Geneva Basin ) on 20 August 2011 after having already sung the previous evening (leg. Delapierre, det. Duffels / Boulard / Hayashi ). Platypleura kaempferi is certainly not a species native to Switzerland and must have been introduced by human activity. There is agarden centre selling exotic trees within 200 metres of Gland locality,and we suppose the specimen to have been introduced with root balls in alarval stage. Furthermore , we assign song recordings made in asettlement in Jegenstorf (23.8.2003; Cordillot, pers. comm.) to another exotic but currently undeterminable cicada .