Durgades nigropicta Distant, 1912

Viraktamath, C. A., Yeshwanth, H. M. & Ajaykumara, K. M., 2024, New species of the leafhopper tribes Agalliini and Macropsini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from north and northeast India with checklist of species of the tribes from the Indian subcontinent, Zootaxa 5486 (2), pp. 267-282 : 275

Durgades nigropicta Distant

Diagnosis. Male pygofer gradually narrowed posteriorly and produced into slightly curved process terminated in stout spine. Aedeagus with well-developed dorsal apodeme bearing one medially cleft lamellate process, each lobe of cleft bearing finger-like process, shaft broad with three ridges around gonoduct, two lateral and one caudal, and one basal pair of dorsally directed processes.

Material examined. INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh: 1♂, Hunli , 30.viii.2022, Ajaykumara ( UASB) .

Remarks. This species has a very wide distribution along the sub-Himalayan region and also in China ( Viraktamath 2011, Viraktamath et al. 2012).