Balclutha viridinervis 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 : 535-536

Balclutha viridinervis Matsumura

( Fig. 27 ; Plate 2, N)

Balclutha viridinervis Matsumura, 1914: 166 ; Knight, 1987: 1190, Figs. 46–51; Webb & Vilbaste, 1994: 69, Figs. 75–82 See Knight (1987) for full synonymy.

Material examined. China: 1 female, Fujian Prov., Zhangpu County, 12.viii.2006, Coll. Yang Meixia; 1 male, Guangdong Prov., Conghua County, Meishu Township, 1.xi.2005, Coll. Li Zhigang & Zhai Xin (GDEI); 1 male, Guangxi Autonomous Region, Fangchengnaliang County, 1.xii.2001, Coll. He Zhiqiang; 6 male, 10 female, Hainan Prov., Xinglong County, 24~ 29.iv.1983, Coll. Zhang Yalin (light trapped); 1 male, Yunnan Prov., Jinghong County, 23.x.1987, Coll. Chai Yonghui & Feng Jinian (NWAFU).

Distribution. China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan), India, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Mariana Islands, Polynesia.

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the characters of head slightly wider than pronotum; aedeagus with basal apodeme fingerlike in lateral aspect, basal apodeme developed, extended dorsally, near right angle with apical shaft, shaft slightly sinuate apically.

Figures

FIGURE 27. Balclutha viridinervis Matsumura A. head and thorax, dorsal view; B. pygophore, lateral view; C., ventral view; E. valve, subgenital plate, style and connective, ventral view; D. aedeagus, lateral view.