Rhopalopyx elongata Wagner, 1952

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

Rhopalopyx elongata Wagner, 1952

This straw-coloured species resembles many other Deltocephalinae . The shaft of the aedeagus is slender and slightly curved in lateral view, with the tip narrowing stepwise. The appendages of the lateral lobes of the pygofer are narrowing stepwise, the macrosetae do not reach the apex ( Fig. 49 ). In sunny, dry habitats on grasses. V-X.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: Wondelgem, Langerbrugge (51.106, 3.723), 11.IX.2018; Trooz, La Rochette (50.585, 5.665), 22.IX.2018.

Figures

Fig. 49. Rhopalopyx elongata Wagner, 1952, lateral view appendage of lateral lobes of pygofer (photo by Koen Lock).