Hecalus ghaurii Rao & Ramakrishnan, 1990

Naveed, Hassan & Zhang, Yalin, 2018, Review of the grass feeding leafhopper genus Hecalus Stål (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) with description of four new species from Pakistan, Zootaxa 4415 (3), pp. 580-590 : 584

Hecalus ghaurii Rao & Ramakrishnan, 1990 n. rec. to Pakistan

( Fig. 2A–K ; Plate ID–G)

Hecalus ghaurii Rao & Ramakrishnan, 1990

Material examined: 25♂, 20♀, Pakistan: Punjab: Mianwali, 26 June 2016, Hassan Naveed. Distribution: Pakistan, India.

Remarks. This species is similar to H. prasinus Matsumura, 1905 in the aedeagal shaft being straight and laterally compressed but can readily be distinguished by the medially broad and apically tapering aedeagal shaft in lateral aspect.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Hecalus ghaurii Rao and Ramakrishnan n. rec. (India, figure by Rao and Ramakrishnan). A: PygoPhore, lateral view; B: female seventh sternite, ventral view; C: aedeagus, lateral view; D: aedeagus, dorsal view; E: forewing; F: hind wing; G: valve and subgenital Plate; H: connective; I: style aPoPhysis;J: style; K: abdominal aPodemes.