Publication details
Potvrzení výskytu kříska leknínového (Erotettix cyane, Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) v České republice
| Title in English | The Pondweed Leafhopper Erotettix cyane (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) confirmed in the Czech Republic |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sborník Severočeského Muzea, Přírodní Vědy |
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| Field | Zoology |
| Keywords | Auchenorrhyncha; Cicadomorpha; Deltocephalinae; phytophagous insects; threatened species; floating macrophyte vegetation of still waters; Bohemia; central Europe; faunistics |
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| Description | We provide one recent and one historical record of the leafhopper Erotettix (= Macrosteles) cyane (Boheman, 1845) from the Czech Republic. A population of this species, confined to floating leaves of macrophyte vegetation of still waters and considered rare and threatened in most European countries, has recently been found on Potamogeton natans in the Dubák Pond, situated in the Meandry Smědé Nature Reserve near the village of Višňová in the Frýdlant region in northernmost Bohemia close to the Polish and German borders. This is only a second record of E. cyane from the Czech Republic after more than sixty years – previously, it was found only at Čelákovice in the Elbe Lowland in central Bohemia in 1953 by J. Dlabola. We summarize available information on the taxonomy, biology and general distribution of E. cyane and point out the importance of floating macrophyte vegetation for insect biodiversity conservation and monitoring |