Grypotes puncticollis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1834)

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

Grypotes puncticollis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1834)

The head is broader than the pronotum, with a dark sinuous line on the vertex, two dark spots near the eyes and the scutellum with two dark spots and a dark transversal line. The aedeagus has a slender shaft with apically two long, almost straight appendages ( Fig. 30). On Pinus sylvestris L. VI-X. The species was marked as expected by COUBEAUX (1892a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED: Lommel, Balimheide (51.206, 5.280), 3.VII.2017; Stambruges, Mer de Sable (50.499, 3.727), 20.VIII.2017 ; Andenne, Sclaigneaux (50.503, 5.048), 14.VII.2018; Neerpelt, Hageven (51.251, 5.415), 4.VIII.2018; Lanaken, Vallei van de Ziepbeek (50.928, 5.650), 19.VIII.2018.