Balclutha punctata (Fabricius, 1775)

Abdollahi, Tandis, Jalalizand, Ali Reza, Mozaffarian, Fariba & Wilson, Michael, 2015, A faunistic study on the leafhoppers of northwestern Iran (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), ZooKeys 496, pp. 27-51 : 37

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Cicadellidae

Balclutha punctata (Fabricius, 1775)

Balclutha punctata : Emeljanov 1964: 507, fig. 182: 3; Biedermann and Niedringhaus 2009: 286.

Material examined.

Ardabil: 32♂♀, Heiran, 1527 m, 37°41'07.4"N, 48°23'57.4"E, 18.January.2007, Light trap, leg. Mozaffarian (Fig. 1, A4).

Worldwide distribution.

Australian region, East Palaearctic, Europe (Albania, Austria, Britain I., Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Ireland, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Russia Central, Russia North, South Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia), Near East, Nearctic region, North Africa, Oriental region ( De Jong 2013).

This species is newly recorded from northwestern Iran.