Balclutha curvata
Authors/Creators
- 1. United States Department of Agriculture, APHIS-PPQ-NIS, MRC- 168, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012
- 2. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, The Doyle Conner Building, 1911 SW 34 th St, Gainesville, FL 32608 & Susan. Halbert @ FDACS. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4341 - 5196
- 3. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, The Doyle Conner Building, 1911 SW 34 th St, Gainesville, FL 32608 & Matthew. Moore @ FDACS. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6313 - 3690
- 4. United States Department of Agriculture, APHIS-PPQ-NIS, 10300 Baltimore Ave., BARC-W, Bldg. 004, Rm. 112, Beltsville, MD 20705
- 5. University of Florida / Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Everglades Research and Education Center, 3200 East Palm Beach Road, Belle Glade, FL 33430
Description
Balclutha curvata (Caldwell), Figs. 55–65
Balclutha flavescens is also similar to B. curvata. Specimens of B. curvata at USNM from Florida at Archbold Research Station, Highlands Co.and from Collier Co.(specific locality not stated)were confirmed here by comparison to the B. curvata type. The drawing of the aedeagus of B. curvata in the original description by C&M (1952, Fig. 39a 1) is mistaken. It does not match the type specimen and appears to be mistakenly drawn of a specimen of B. flavescens. Linnavuori’s (1959) drawing of B. curvata closely resembles the “ B. curvata ” figures of C&M (1952) (likely copied from C&M, furthering the error) and also resemble the figures of B. flavescens by Linnavuori (1959) and by Blocker (1967). Blocker (1967) illustrated the male genitalia of B. curvata but Blocker’s figures, especially of the aedeagus, differ somewhat from the holotype. The holotype, deposited at USNM, is illustrated here (Figs. 55–65) to help clarify this species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Caldwell
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Cicadellidae
- Genus
- Balclutha
- Species
- curvata
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Linnavuori, R. E. (1959) Revision of the Neotropical Deltocephalinae and some related subfamilies (Homoptera). Annales Zoologici Societatis Zoologicae-Botanicae Fennicae ' Vanamo', 20 (1), 1 - 370.
- Blocker, H. D. (1967) Classification of the western hemisphere Balclutha (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 122, 1 - 55. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.122 - 3581.1