Description of the female terminalia of twenty species of Proconiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Argentina Author Dellapé, Gimena text Zootaxa 2015 3915 4 521 539 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3915.4.4 e850c6af-943a-4b52-8ca5-aaebf9831cf6 1175-5326 244832 0AE967DB-31CE-4BA2-AAB9-D69B54C62C26 Phera carbonaria (Melichar 1924) Diagnosis. Crown and pronotum brownish, with longitudinal yellow line; proepimeron with lower marginal area depressed; anal veins fused along considerable distance. Male : aedeagus symmetrical, with pair of widely divergent and curved ventral processes. Female terminalia. Abdominal sternite VII, in ventral view ( Fig. 16 ), with lateral margins slightly convergent posteriorly, lateroposterior margins obtuse, and posterior margin with shallow elongated median emargination; surface with numerous scattered microsetae. Pygofer, in lateral view, moderately produced posteriorly; surface with scattered microsetae and a few macrosetae on posterior third of disc. First valvifers, in lateral view, longer than tall; with small spiniform processes on ventral region and fine setae on posterior margin. First ovipositor valvulae, in lateral view, rectilinear beyond basal curvature; dorsal and ventral sculptured areas formed by scalelike processes arranged in oblique lines; apex acute ( Fig. 36 ), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins. Second valvulae, in lateral view, rectilinear beyond basal curvature; dorsal margin of blade bearing 56 to 60 noncontiguous teeth, each tooth square-shaped, with denticles on posterior and dorsal margins ( Fig. 56 ); ducts extending toward teeth and toward apical blade portion; apex rounded ( Fig. 76 ), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins; slight preapical ventral prominence. Gonoplacs, in lateral view, with small spiniform processes on ventral margin; apex rounded. Material examined. ARGENTINA . Misiones : 3♂ , without other data; Dep. Concepción, Santa María, 1♂ , X/1946 , M.J. Viana ( MACN ); Aristóbulo del Valle, 1♀, 2/XII/1960 , A. Ogloblin; Iguazú, 3♂ 1♀, 10/XI/1973 , Tonsic & Willink; 1♂ , 4/IV/1910 , Jörgensen; 1♂ , 31/VIII/1910 , Jörgensen; Parque Provincial Urugua-i, 1♂ , 13/ XII/1957 ; San Javier, 1♂ , 16/XII/1957 , Biraben; Iguazú, 1♂ , XI/1944 , Biraben; Route 211 km 36, 26 °55´55´´S 54°43´4´´W , 1♀, 5/I/2008 , light trap, C.H. Dietrich ( MLP ); Iguazú, 2♂ , 10/XI/1973 , Tonsic & Willink; Parque Nacional Iguazú, 1♂ 1♀, 10/XI/1973 , Tonsic & Willink; Dos de Mayo, 1♂ , 18/XI/1973 , Escobar & Claps ( IMLA ). Distribution. Brazil , Paraguay ( Young 1968 ) and Argentina : Misiones ( Paradell et al. 2012 ).