Balclutha asymmetrica Knight

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 : 507

Balclutha asymmetrica Knight

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Balclutha asymmetrica Knight, 1987: 1201 , Figs. 107–113; Webb & Vilbaste, 1994: 61, Figs. 147–153; Dai, Li & Chen, 2004: 750

Distribution. China ( Taiwan), Philippines.

Remarks. Specimens of this species were not available for study. It was recorded, without figures, from China ( Taiwan) by Dai, Li & Chen (2004). The species can be distinguished by the asymmetrical aedeagus with the shaft elongate and anterior margin keellike over the basal third, forming a medial asymmetrical process at the base.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Balclutha asymmetrica Knight (reproduced from Knight, 1987) A. head and thorax, dorsal view; B. pygophore, lateral view; C. style, ventral view; D. aedeagus, ventral view; D. valve, subgenital plate, ventral view; E. connective, ventral view; F – G .. aeadeagus, posterior and lateral view.