Conomelus lorifer Ribaut, 1948

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 : 274-275

Conomelus lorifer Ribaut, 1948 ( Fig. 2 A)

Second record from Switzerland: Ticino, Cadenazzo, Vignette, vineyard [46 ° 8 ’ 57.12 ’’ N, 8 ° 55 ’ 11.89 ’’ E, 209 m], 1 ♀,0 7.09. 2011, D-vac, leg. &det. Valeria Trivellone .

Distribution: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia,Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia.

Remarks: C. lorifer feeds on Juncus effusus and probably other rushes. This species was recorded in Switzerland for the first time in 2010 (Trivellone 2010) and was collected in abundance from the phytocenosis of Sphagno-Caricetum rostratae in the cantons Ticino and Grisons. The single macropterous female of C. lorifer was collected in avineyard under ahigh mowing disturbance regime with small scattered patches of the nearctic neophyte Juncus tenuis .