Acanalonia conica (Say, 1830)

Valeria Trivellone, Eva Knop, Tabea Turrini, Line Andrey, Jean-Yves Humbert & Gernot Kunz, 2015, New and remarkable leafhoppers and planthoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) from Switzerland, Mitteilungen Der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 88, pp. 273-284 : 274

Acanalonia conica (Say, 1830) ( Fig. 1)

First record from Switzerland: Ticino, Agno, green area [45 ° 59 ’ 44.51 ’’ N, 8 ° 54 ’ 9.21 ’’ E, 272 m], 1 ♂, 26.07. 2014, mouth aspirator, leg. &det. Valeria Trivellone .

Distribution:USA, Northern Italy, Switzerland.

Remarks: A. conica is for the moment the only representative of the family in Europe. In North America this extremely polyphagous planthopper is commonly found feeding mixed with flatid species such as Metcalfa pruinosa (Say, 1830) , Anormenis chloris (Melichar, 1902) or Ormenoides venusta (Melichar, 1902) (Wilson & Lucchi 2001) . In Europe it was recorded for the first time in 2004 (Italy: Veneto) (D’Urso &Uliana 2004, 2006).