Baluba

Nielson, M. W., 2011, Tribe Teruliini: new genera and new species of Neotropical leafhoppers with a revised key to genera and species, new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae), Zootaxa 2795 (1), pp. 1-45 : 9

Key to species of Baluba (males)

1. Aedeagus in lateral view with paired spines arising about ¼ distance from apex of shaft, gonopore exiting ventrally (fig. 657, Nielson, 1979)........................................................................................ 2

- Aedeagus in lateral view with paired spines arising near apex of shaft, gonopore exiting laterally (Fig. 645, Nielson, 1979).. 3

2. Aedeagus in lateral view with prominent lateral lobe on ventral margin ( Fig. 21 ): pygofer with very long caudodorsal process ( Fig. 17 ); subgenital plate long, very narrow ( Fig. 18 )................................ ( Colombia) B. sharkeyi , sp. nov.

- Aedeagus in lateral view without lateral lobe on ventral margin (Fig. 645, Nielson, 1979); pygofer with moderately long caudodorsal process (Fig. 641, Nielson, 1979); subgenital plate long, robust (fig. 643, Nielson, 1979)................................................................................................... ( Venezuela) B. acuta Nielson

3. Pygofer in lateral view with long, attenuated caudodorsal process (Fig. 653, Nielson, 1979); subgenital plate long and narrow (Fig. 655, Nielson 1979); aedeagus with gonopore exiting subbasally (Fig. 657, Nielson, 1979)......................................................................................................( Guyana) B. parallela Nielson

- Pygofer in lateral view with rather short, broad caudorsal process (Fig. 647, Nielson 1979); subgenital plate very broad in distal half (fig. 649, Nielson, 1979); aedeagus with gonopore exiting subdistally (Fig. 652, Nielson, 1979)............................................................................................. ( Venezuela) B. retrorsa Nielson

Figures

FIGURES 17–24. Baluba sharkeyi, sp. nov. (17) pygofer and segment X, lateral view; (18) right subgenital plate, ventral view; (19) right style, lateral view; (20) right style, dorsal view; (21) aedeagus and dorsal connective, lateral view; (22) aedeagus, ventral view; (23) connective, dorsal view; (24) dorsal connective, dorsal view.