Zygina schneideri Gunthart, 1974

Lock, Koen, 2011, Fifty leafhoppers new to Belgium (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 88, pp. 1-28 : 1-28

Zygina schneideri Gunthart, 1974

This species also has a red zig-zag pattern on the forewing. Z. schneideri can be distinguished by the short hind tarsi with black third and distal half second segment, the broad apodemes of the second sternite that nearly reach the third sternite and the light clavus and fore margin of the forewing ( Fig. 55 ). Recently, Z. schneideri was also recorded in the Netherlands ( DEN BIEMAN & VAN KLINK, 2015). On sun-exposed woody Rosaceae such as Prunus spinosa L. and Rosa spp. I-XII.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: Honelles, Onnezies (50.363, 3.707), 29.IX.2017; Gentbrugge, Arbedpark (51.046, 3.752), 12.X.2017; Gent, Sifferdok (51.094, 3.742), 14.IV.2018; Dilsen-Stokkem, Kerkeweerd (51.021, 5.756), 11.VIII.2018.

Figures

Fig. 55. Zygina schneideri Gunthart, 1974, dorsal view Fig. 56. Zygina tiliae (Fallen, 1806), dorsal view (photo by Koen Lock). (photo by Koen Lock).