Balclutha impicta

Appearance

This species ranges in color from pale green to a dull brown/yellow. The face frequently has brown lines on either side of the midline, and there are often brown/orange markings on the vertex and pronotum; there tend to be dark longitudinal bands on the pronotum. The vertex is typically slightly longer in the middle than next to the eye. The wings vary from having an irregular number of scattered brown/black dots to [more commonly] being unspotted, in which case the wings are concolorous with the body color; the underside of the thorax and abdominal dorsum are dark/black. The head is distinctly narrower than the pronotum, which is overall triangular in shape; this results in the head having a strong curve around the pronotum and therefore appearing pointed rather than circular. The female pregenital sternite has a truncated posterior margin, sometimes slightly sinuate apically. Adult males are 3.5 to 4.2 mm long, females are 3.6 to 4.0 mm.

Naming

Balclutha impicta (Van Duzee 1892)
Gnathodus impidus Yan Duzee, 1892
Gnalhodus impiclus vnr. flavus Baker, 1896
Gnathodus viridis Osborn, 1905
Balclutha impicta var. maculata Davidson and DeLong, 1935
Balclutha osborni Van Duzee, 1916

Distribution

Across US and Canada

Habitat

Woodlands

Food

Thought to feed on grasses and sedges which are the food plant of other Balclutha species.