Tettigettula pygmea (Olivier,1790)

Hertach, Thomas & Nagel, Peter, 2013, Cicadas in Switzerland: ascientific overview of the historic and current knowledge of apopular taxon (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (2), pp. 229-269 : 258

Tettigettula pygmea (Olivier,1790)

syn. Cicadetta brullei Fieber,1876

Tettigettula pygmea (sensu Puissant & Sueur, 2010) is very widespread and frequent in central and southern Italy,reaching elevated locations in the mountains. Because of its nearly ultrasonic song it is probably often missed. Servadei (1967) reports this species from Lombardy,unfortunately without specifying amore precise locality. Schedl (2004) mentions asingle voucher specimen found at the Lake Neusiedl region in 1973. He has never listed the species for the south-eastern Alps ( Schedl, 1973, 2000), but we have found it for example at Monte Collalto (Bassano di Grappa, Veneto). This is currently the nearest location to the Swiss border and an expansion towards the Ticino region would not be surprising.