Metcalfa pruinosa (Say) (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha) anew harmful species for entomofauna of Serbia

Abstract

In the early autumn 2006, a Nonarctic species of cicadas Metcalfa pruinosa (Say) (Auchenorrhyncha: Flatidae) was identified in Belgrade (Košutnjak). In Europe, this species was identified for the first time in Italy in 1979. In Slovenia, it was identified in 1990 in west Istria, and in 2001 in the neighbourhood of Ljubljana. In the park forest Košutnjak (Belgrade) mass occurrence of M. pruinosa was recorded in the area of about 5 ha. The larvae developed on woody species in the genera: Acer, Aesculus, Gleditchia Robinia, Ailanthus, Populus, Platanus, Prunus, Pyrus, Ulmus, Tilia, Cornus Fraxinus, Quercus and Thuja, što is konstatovano based on damages of larvae while numerous adults were found on trees and branches of the same plants.

Keywords

• Metcalfa pruinosa
• Auchenorrhyncha
• Flatidae
• entomofauna of Serbia