Zygina ordinaria (Ribaut, 1936)

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

Zygina ordinaria (Ribaut, 1936)

The genus Zygina Fieber, 1866 contains a lot of species with a red zig-zag pattern on the forewings. Males of Z. ordinaria can be recognised by the short hind tarsi with black third and distal half second segment, the short, tongue-shaped apodemes on the second sternite, the extensively darkened fore margin of the forewings and the clavus which is slightly darker than the corium ( Fig. 54 ). Near water on narrow-leaved Salix spp. I-XII.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: Merendree, Kalevallei (51.076, 3.609), 15.IX.2017; Wavreille, Ri d’Howisse (50.111, 5.254), 23.IX.2017; Gentbrugge, Arbedpark (51.046, 3.752), 12.X.2017.

Figures

Fig. 54. Zygina ordinaria (Ribaut, 1936), dorsal view (photo by Koen Lock).