Alpine Entomology (Jul 2020)

First record of Erasmoneura vulnerata Fitch, 1851 (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) in Switzerland

  • Attilio Rizzoli,
  • Riccardo Battelli,
  • Marco Conedera,
  • Mauro Jermini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/alpento.4.53967
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4
pp. 151 – 156

Abstract

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The first record of Erasmoneura vulnerata Fitch, 1851 in Switzerland is reported. Specimens were collected in 2019 using yellow sticky traps during a Scaphoideus titanus monitoring campaign in vineyards in Ticino (Southern Switzerland). E. vulnerata is a grapevine pest that has recently been introduced to Europe, whose phytophagy causes detrimental damage to grapevine leaves. Its occurrence in this area has likely been favored by the ongoing suspension of insecticide treatments for the control of the S. titanus population, the vector agent of the “Flavescence dorée” phytoplasma in grapevines.