Balclutha Kirkaldy 1900
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Genus Balclutha Kirkaldy, 1900
Gnathodus Fieber, 1866: 505. Type species: Cicada punctata Fabricius, 1775; Preoccupied name: Gnathodus Pander, 1856
Balclutha Kirkaldy, 1900: 243. New name for Gnathodus Fieber 1866, not Gnathodus Pander, 1856. Type-species: Cicada punctata Fabricius, 1775; Kinght, 1987; Webb & Vilbaste, 1994; Lu, Zhang & Webb, 2013
For full generic synonymy, see Knight (1987).
Diagnosis. Body color yellowish, greenish or brownish. Body small, slender; head usually as wide as pronotum, sometimes narrower or slightly wider; crown very short, anterior margin weakly angulate, usually parallel to hind margin; rostrum with apical segment short. Forewings elongate, with two subapical cells. Hindwings with three apical cells. Hind tibia pecten with two transverse rows of setae; first tarsomere pecten with inner acute seta much longer than adjacent platellae. Style with apical process usually strongly arched; lateral lobe well-developed, rarely reduced; basal arms short. Aedeagal shaft usually simple, tubular, recurved anterodorsally, base sometimes expanded in lateral view; rarely with process, if present basal. Macrosetae of pygofer and subgenital plate plumose.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Cicadellidae
- Genus
- Balclutha
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Kirkaldy
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Balclutha Kirkaldy, 1900 sec. Sun, Zhang, Lu & Webb, 2019
References
- Kirkaldy, G. W. (1900) Bibliographical and nomenclatorial notes on the Rhynchota. No. 1. Entomologist, 33, 238 - 243. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 3888
- Fieber, F. X. (1866) Neue Gattungen und Arten in Homopteren (Cicadina Bur.). Ferhandlungen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 16, 497 - 516.
- Fabricius, J. C. (1775) Ryngota. In: Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. In Officina Libraria Kortii, Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae, pp. 1 - 816.
- Webb, M. D. & Vilbaste, J. (1994) Review of the leafhopper genus Balclutha Kirkaldy in the Oriental Region (Insecta: Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Entomologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde Dresden, 56, 56 - 86.
- Lu, L., Zhang, Y. L. & Webb, M. D. (2013) Review of the grass feeding leafhopper genus Balclutha Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China. Zootaxa, 3691 (5), 501 - 537. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3691.5.1
- Knight, W. J. (1987) Leafhoppers of the grass-feeding genus Balclutha (Homoptera, Cicadellidae) in the Pacific region. Journal of Natural History, 21, 1173 - 1224. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938700770731