Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844
Author
C. A. Viraktamath
text
Zootaxa
2011
2011-04-29
2844
1
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journal article
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Igerna keyae
sp. nov.
Figs 333–342
.
Color.
Ochraceous with dark brown to black markings on head and pronotum (
Figs 333, 334
). Forewings chocolate brown, posterior 0.75 area of clavus, costal area except base, paler. Legs chocolate brown, meso and meta coxae, apices of femora and bases of tibiae, ochraceous.
FIGURES 321–332.
Species of
Igerna
: 321–326.
Igerna himalayensis
sp. nov.
: 321. Head and thorax; 322. Pygofer, lateral view; 323. Process of pygofer, mesal view; 324. Apical half of style, dorsal view; 325. Style, connective and aedeagus, lateral view; 326. Apex of shaft, anterodorsal view. 327–332.
Igerna quinlani
sp. nov.
: 327. Head and thorax; 328. Male pygofer, lateral view; 329. Style, connective and aedeagus, lateral view; 330. Aedeagal shaft processes; 331. Connective; 332. Style, ventral view.
FIGURES 333–342.
Igerna keyae
sp. nov.
: 333. Head and thorax; 334. Face; 335. Male genital capsule; 336. Anal collar process, lateral view; 337. Fused connective and aedeagus, lateral view; 338. Connective and aedeagus, anterior view; 339. Style, dorsal view; 340. Style, mesolateral veiw; 341. Sternal apodemes at base of abdomen; 342. Tergal apodemes at base of abdomen.
Morphology.
Face including eyes about as wide as long. Ocelli closer to adjacent eyes than to each other.
Male genitalia.
Caudal lobe of pygofer produced dorsally into spine with small denticle on caudal margin at base of spine. Connective and aedeagus apparently fused, basal part of aedeagus surrounded by connective in lateral aspect, dorsal apodeme well developed, aedeagal shaft slender directed caudally with pair of apical slender processes curved anteriorly and about 0.75 as long as shaft, each process with basal angular projection, gonopore on ventral margin between bases of apical processes. Anal collar process dorsally produced, slender and apically curved into hook.
Measurements.
Male
3.95 mm
long and
1.2 mm
wide across eyes.
Material examined.
HOLOTYPE
♂
,
INDIA
:
Sikkim
,
Gangtok
,
2123 m
,
9.vi.2005
,
C.A. Viraktamath
(
UASB
).
Remarks.
This species is distinctive in possessing a pair of long, recurved, apical processes on the aedeagal shaft. It resembles
Igerna violacea
(Distant)
in the structure of the aedeagus but the aedeagus is much smaller and has much longer processes compared to
I. violacea
.