Kelisia praecox Haupt, 1935

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 : 276

Kelisia praecox Haupt, 1935 ( Fig. 2 D)

First record from Switzerland: Ticino, Lavertezzo, Montedato, vineyard [46 ° 10 ’ 47.25 ’’ N, 8 ° 53 ’ 16.87 ’’ E, 336 m], 1 ♂, 1 ♀,0 8.09. 2011, D-vac, leg. &det. Valeria. Trivellone

Distribution:Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Iran, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, former Yugoslavia.

Remarks:the species is frequently associated with Carex brizoides at moist sites, usually forest meadows or clearings (Nickel 2003). In this study, two specimens were collected on embankments inside avineyard with Carex caryophyllea and Carex hirta .