Balera
Creators: name: Coelho, Luci Boa Nova
name: Nessimian, Jorge Luiz
name: Da-Silva, Elidiomar Ribeiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Balera

description: Key to species of Balera
(Modified from Freytag 1992)
1 Aedeagus without processes on apical region, with lobes, keels or bifurcation (Figs 16–18)........................... 2
- Aedeagus with processes on apical region (Figs 14, 19–21, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29).................................... 4
2 Aedeagus inflated, shaft keeled laterally, with 3 apical lobes (Fig. 16).................... B. pellucida (Osborn) (Bolivia)
- Aedeagus not inflated, shaft with or without keels, without apical lobes (Figs 17–18)................................ 3
3 Aedeagus bifurcated distally (Fig. 17)............................................. B. bracata Ruppel (Colombia)
- Aedeagus not bifurcated, with pair of lateral keels on apical half (Fig.18).................... B. pusilla Young (Panama)
4 Aedeagus with one pair of apical processes (Figs 19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28).......................................... 5
- Aedeagus with two or more pairs of apical processes (Figs 14, 20, 29).......................................... 10
5 Style with acute apex (Figs 13, 25, 27).................................................................... 6
- Style with truncate apex (Fig. 22).................................................. B. obtusa Freytag (Ecuador)
6 Apices of aedeagal processes convergent, in ventral view, near stem base (Fig. 23)........ B. napoensis Freytag (Ecuador)
- Apices of aedeagal processes not convergent (Figs 24, 26, 28)................................................. 7
7 Apex of aedeagus narrow and pointed in ventral view (Figs 24, 26).............................................. 8
- Apex of aedeagus not pointed in ventral view (Figs 19, 28)................................................... 9
8 Style slightly angled on apical half (Fig. 25); pygofer long, with posterior margin well developed, narrowly rounded off.................................................................................. B. plagata Freytag (Ecuador)
- Style strongly angled on apical half (Fig. 27); pygofer broad, with posterior margin little developed................................................................................................. B. ecuadora Freytag (Ecuador)
9 Posterior margin of pygofer broadly rounded................... B. caraguatae Young (Brazil, Panama, Trinidad-Tobago)
- Posterior margin of pygofer with acuminate process............................ B. signata Dworakowska (Venezuela)
10 Aedeagus with two pairs of apical processes (Figs 20, 29).................................................... 11
- Aedeagus with three pairs of apical processes (Fig. 14)..................................... B. fiuzai sp.nov. (Brazil)
11 Dorsoapical pair of aedeagal processes longer than ventral pair (Fig. 20).................... B. myersi Freytag (Ecuador)
- Dorsoapical pair of aedeagal processes approximately same length than ventral pair (Fig. 29).................................................................................................... B. emarginata (Osborn) (Bolivia)
description: Published as part of Coelho, Luci Boa Nova, Nessimian, Jorge Luiz & Da-Silva, Elidiomar Ribeiro, 2013, A new species of Balera Young and redescription of Habralebra gillettei Young (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from Viçosa, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, pp. 39-46 in Zootaxa 3637 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3637.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/283589