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Balclutha impicta impicta (Van Duzee) 



Figure 4 



Gnathodus impidus Yan Duzee, 1892, Canadian Eut., vol. 24, p. 113. 

 Gnalhodus impiclus vnr. flavus Baker, 1896, Canadian Ent., vol. 28, p. 38. 

 Gnathodus viridis Osborn, 1905, Bull. New York State Mus., vol. 97, p. 541. 

 Balclutha impicta var. maculata Davidson and DeLong, 1935, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. 37, p. 101. 

 Balclutha osborni Van Duzee, 1916, Check list of Hemiptera, p. 75. 



Length of male 3.5 to 4.2 mm, of female 3.6 to 4.0 mm; head width 

 of male .750 to .875 mm, of female .750 to .850 mm; pronotal width of 

 male .825 to 1.000 mm, of female .825 to .950 mm. 



Figure 4. — B. i. impicta: a, aedeagus, lateral view; b, style and connective, dorsal view; 

 c, male pygofer, lateral view; d, valve and plate, ventral view; e, female abdominal sternum 

 VII, ventral view. 



Head distinctly narrower than pronotum; vertex usually slightly 

 longer medially than next to eye, interocular width more than 3 times 

 median length, ocellus located at a distance of from \% times its 



