Balclutha kuroiwae Matsumura

Lu, Lin, Zhang, Yalin & Webb, M. D., 2013, Review of the Grass Feeding Leafhopper Genus Balclutha Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, Zootaxa 3691 (5), pp. 501-537 : 514

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3691.5.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6161404

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scientific name

Balclutha kuroiwae Matsumura
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Balclutha kuroiwae Matsumura View in CoL

( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 ; Plate 1, F)

Balclutha kuroiwae Matsumura, 1914: 168 ; Knight, 1987: 1200, Figs. 100–106; Webb & Vilbaste, 1994: 63, Figs. 160–167; Dai, Li & Chen, 2004: 750

Material examined. China: 8 males, 10 females, Guangdong Prov., Mt. Dinghu, 19~ 20.vi.1983, Coll. Zhang Yalin (light trapped); 1 male, Hainan Prov., Liangyuan County, 26.iv.1983, Coll. Zhang Yalin (light trapped) (NWAFU).

Distribution. China (Guangdong, Hainan), Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, Micronesia.

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the following features: ground coloration straw yellow with reddish to brown markings on vertex, pronotum and scutellum; head slightly broader than pronotum; aedeagus with shaft sinuate in lateral view.

Gallery Image

FIGURE 10. Balclutha kuroiwae (Matsumura) A. head and thorax, dorsal view; B. pygophore, lateral view; C. subgenital plate, ventral view; D. aedeagus, lateral view.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

SubFamily

Deltocephalinae

Genus

Balclutha