Species Balocha unilineata Maldonado Capriles, 1970

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• Balocha unilineata Maldonado Capriles, J. 1970. Studies on idiocerine leafhoppers VI. New species of Balocha from the Papuan subregion (Homoptera : Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 12: 297-302 [300].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM 9182 ♂ (coll.: 28.x.1962, 130 m, J. & M. Sedlacek), Gaulim, Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain.

Introduction

This species is mainly known from New Britain but Webb (1983) recorded it from the far north of both the Northern Territory and Queensland.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

This species is closely related to B. xantho (Kirkaldy) but the male subgenital plate has a short process at the midpoint of the ventral margin and the aedeagus is also different in shape (Webb 1983).

ID Keys

Webb 1983: 58

Diagnosis References

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [59]

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