Edwardsiana candidula (Kirschbaum, 1868)

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

Edwardsiana candidula (Kirschbaum, 1868)

The outer pair of appendages of the aedeagus is long, thin and V-shaped in posterior view; the inner appendages form a right angle with the shaft, are forked at the base and have about the same length as the outer pair in lateral view, but the four tips are all bent inwards ( Fig. 14 ). On Populus alba L. V-X. The species was marked as expected by COUBEAUX (1892a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED: Oudenaarde, Bos t’Ename (50.865, 3.654), 16.VII.2015; Lommel, Balimheide (51.198, 5.241), 16.VI.2018.

Figures

Fig. 14. Edwardsiana candidula (Kirschbaum, 1868), lateral view aedeagus (photo by Koen Lock).