Open AccessMetcalfa pruinosa (Say) (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha) anew harmful species for entomofauna of Serbia
Author(s) -
Ljubodrag Mihajlović
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
glasnik šumarskog fakulteta - univerzitet u beogradu/glasnik šumarskog fakulteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2217-8600
pISSN - 0353-4537
DOI - 10.2298/gsf0795127m
Subject(s) - biology , auchenorrhyncha , botany , robinia , homoptera , fraxinus , geography , pest analysis
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