Apogonalia blanchardi (Signoret, 1855)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.5 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6039741 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE880C-FF8A-F600-FF7F-0C861FAEFC68 |
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Apogonalia blanchardi (Signoret, 1855) |
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Apogonalia blanchardi (Signoret, 1855) View in CoL
( Figs 6–15 View FIGURES 1 – 15 )
Diagnosis. Anterior dorsum ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 1 – 15 ) yellow with dark brown marks and broad, median yellow stripe bordered by dark brown; yellow median stripe with irregular, elongate dark brown marks. Pronotum with four vivid yellow maculae usually distinct on disc, one mediolateral pair and one lateral pair. Forewing reddish-brown ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 1 – 15 ) with numerous yellow maculae on basal portion; apex dark. Face ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 1 – 15 ) yellow with dark brown marks. Frons with longitudinal dark brown stripes; median portion with inverted V-shaped dark mark; pair of elongate V-shaped mediolateral dark marks. Clypeus orange with median dark brown stripe. Male pygofer with inner ventroapical acute process. Aedeagus with pair of ventral acute processes anteriorly curved. Paraphyses with Y-shaped basal sclerite and pair of long and narrow rami, strongly expanded subapically, apex acute; right ramus apical, left ramus subapical. Female sternite VII ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 1 – 15 ) with posterior margin narrowly convex. Sternite VIII ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 1 – 15 ) with large, semilunar sclerotized plate.
Female length. 11.6–11.8 mm (n = 2).
Description of female genitalia. Sternite VII ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 1 – 15 ) moderately produced posteriorly; apical portion abruptly narrow; posterior margin narrowly convex, with median concavity bearing minute lateral processes. Sternite VIII ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 1 – 15 ), in dorsal view, with semilunar sclerotized plate, irregularly emarginate on anteromedian portion. Pygofer ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 1 – 15 ) moderately produced posteriorly; posterior margin narrowly convex in lateral view; disc with long macrosetae on posterodorsal portion and apical 3/4 of posteroventral portion. Valvula I, in ventral view ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 1 – 15 ), with basal portion narrow and anteriorly produced; basal margin slightly concave; blade similar to that of A. angusta ; apical portion ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 1 – 15 ) acute in lateral view. Valvula II ( Figs 13–15 View FIGURES 1 – 15 ) similar to that of A. angusta ; preapical prominence approximately aligned to apical tooth ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 1 – 15 ).
Material examined. Mexico: San Luis Potosí, one male and one female ( USNM) ; Veracruz-Llave , two males ( USNM) . Nicaragua: Boaco, one female ( USNM) .
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History |
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