Balera Young

Catalano, Maria Ines, Paradell, Susana L. & Dietrich, Christopher H., 2013, First report on the leafhopper genus Balera Young (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae, Alebrini) from Argentina, and description of a new species, ZooKeys 352, pp. 1-7 : 2

Balera Young

Balera Young, 1952: 25. Type species: Dikraneura pellucida (Osborn), by original designation.

Diagnosis.

The genus Balera can be distinguished by the following combination of characters: forewing with appendix not extending around wing apex; hindwing with submarginal vein distinct and free from apical wing margin; male sternal abdominal apodemes slender and elongate, usually capitate apically; pygofer produced posteriorly, occasionally forming an apical process; subgenital plates with single or double row of weak macrosetae; style sigmoid in lateral aspect; connective V or Y-shaped or triangular; aedeagus shaft with one or two pairs of apical or anteapical processes.

Key to males of Balera (modified from Coelho et al. 2013 to include the new species)