Apogonalia dampfi Young, 1977

Felix, Márcio & Mejdalani, Gabriel, 2017, The sharpshooter geNUs Apogonalia EvaNs (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: CicadelliNi): descriptioN of females aNd key to species, Zootaxa 4338 (1), pp. 101-127 : 104

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6039743

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Apogonalia dampfi Young, 1977
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Apogonalia dampfi Young, 1977 View in CoL

( Figs 16–19 View FIGURES 16 – 28 )

Diagnosis. Anterior dorsum yellow with brown marks; two pairs of narrow, irregular mediolateral longitudinal brown stripes ( Young 1977, fig. 750a). Crown with anteromedian pair of diagonal brown arches connected medially. Pronotum with four yellow maculae on disc, one mediolateral pair, elongate, and one lateral pair. Forewing red with brown veins; clavus with brown mark and elongate yellow maculae between claval veins; corium with area of discal cells brown, with large yellow marks; apex dark brown. Face ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 16 – 28 ) with mosaic of irregular brown marks on yellow background of frons. Clypeus with median brown stripe dorsally bifurcated. Male pygofer with inner dorsoapical process, short ventroapical acute process directed mesally ( Young 1977, fig. 750p). Paraphyses only with basal sclerite ( Young 1977, fig. 750h). Aedeagal shaft with long ventroapical process ( Young 1977, fig. 750f). Female sternite VII similar to that of A. blanchardi but with median emargination slight. Sternite VIII ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 16 – 28 ) with two sclerotized plates, anterior one arch-shaped and posterior one subtrapezoidal, smaller.

Female length. 10.1 mm (n = 2).

Description of female genitalia. Sternite VII similar to that of A. blanchardi , with slight median concavity posteriorly. Sternite VIII ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 16 – 28 ), in dorsal view, with anterior arch-shaped sclerotized plate and posterior, smaller subtrapezoidal plate. Pygofer similar to that of A. angusta . Valvula I, in ventral view ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 16 – 28 ), with basal portion moderately broad; basal margin transversely truncate; blade similar to that of A. angusta . Valvula II similar to that of A. angusta ; preapical prominence anterior to anteapical tooth ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 16 – 28 ).

Material examined. Costa Rica: Alajuela, one female ( USNM) ; San José, one male and one female ( USNM) . Guatemala : Chimaltenango, one male ( USNM) .

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Apogonalia

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