Balclutha paralucida, Lu, Lin, Zhang, Yalin & Webb, M. D., 2013

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 : 517-518

Balclutha paralucida sp. nov.

( Fig. 13 ; Plate 1, I)

Description. Length (including tegmen). Male: 3.3–3.9 mm; female: 3.6–4.1 mm.

Greenish yellow or yellow; head and thorax tinged with green; pronotum with center brownish orange; forewings yellow without markings. Head slightly narrower than pronotum, vertex rounded, ocelli more than own diameter from corresponding eyes; hind femur setal formula: 2.1.1.

Male genitalia. Pygophore broadly rounded posteriorly, ventroposterior margin without processes. Valve broadly triangular. Subgenital plates triangular, tapering to fingerlike apex. Style with apex curved slightly laterally; preapical lobe well developed with some setae. Connective with stem longer than arms, apex broadened and strongly emarginate. Aedeagal shaft elongate, apex extended beyond anterior margin of pygophore; aedeagal shaft gently curved dorsally and then anteriorly, sinuate medially, gonopore apical.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE: male, China, Guangdong Prov., Mt. Dinghu, 19.vi.1983, Coll. Zhang Yalin (light trapped); PARATYPES: China: 1 male, 1 female, same as holotype; 1 male, Hainan Prov., Liangyuan County, 1.vi.1983, Coll. Zhang Yalin; 1 male, 1 female, Yunnan Prov., Mengla County, Mt. Nangong, 17.xii.1999, 1200m, Coll. Dworakowska (NWAFU).

Distribution. China (Guangdong, Hainan, Yunnan).

Remarks.: The species is very similar to B. lucida in color and shape, but can be distinguished from the latter by the aedeagal shaft being more gradually curved dorsally and then anteriorly and sinuate medially.

Etymology. “Para–” means “similar” or “by the side of”, and as this species is close to B. lucida , we gave it the name paralucida .

Figures

FIGURE 13. Balclutha paralucida Lu & Zhang, sp. nov. A. head and thorax, dorsal view; B. pygophore, lateral view; C. valvae, subgenital plate, style, connective, ventral view; D. aedeagus, lateral view.