Apogonalia woodruffi 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 : 121

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6039784

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scientific name

Apogonalia woodruffi Young, 1977
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Apogonalia woodruffi Young, 1977 View in CoL

( Figs 92–97 View FIGURES 85 – 97 )

Diagnosis. Anterior dorsum ( Fig. 92 View FIGURES 85 – 97 ) with pattern similar to that of A. krameri . Mesonotum ( Fig. 92 View FIGURES 85 – 97 ) with three large anterior yellow marks and one posterior mark, bordered by dark brown. Forewing ( Figs 92, 93 View FIGURES 85 – 97 ) red with numerous small bluish-white maculae on clavus and adjacent corium; outer discal cell with irregular white stripe adjacent to outer margin; apical portion gray. Face ( Fig. 94 View FIGURES 85 – 97 ) with pattern similar to that of A. krameri . Male pygofer with long inner ventroapical process, extending medially and crossing median line ( Young 1977, fig. 761p). Aedeagal shaft with unpaired ventral process with apical third bifurcated ( Young 1977, fig. 761f). Female sternite VII with broad, subrectangular posteromedian emargination, bordered by short projections. Sternite VIII ( Figs 95, 96 View FIGURES 85 – 97 ) with short, arch-shaped sclerotized plate, broadly concave on anteromedian portion and with broad, median longitudinal depression.

Female length. 10.8 mm (n = 1).

Description of female genitalia. Sternite VII similar to that of A. stali . Sternite VIII, in dorsal view ( Fig. 95 View FIGURES 85 – 97 ), with short, arch-shaped sclerotized plate; anterior margin of plate broadly convex, with broad and deep median concavity; posterior margin slightly produced and truncate medially; dorsal surface with broad and deep longitudinal median depression; anterior surface ( Fig. 96 View FIGURES 85 – 97 ) strongly bilobate dorsolaterally. Pygofer similar to that of A. angusta . Valvula I, in ventral view ( Fig. 97 View FIGURES 85 – 97 ), with basal portion slightly broad and bearing short lateral prominence; basal margin slightly oblique, irregular and subtruncate; blade similar to that of A. angusta . Valvula II similar to that of A.angusta ; teeth, on median portion of blade, very prominent, 1.5 to 2 times longer than high, spaced from one another about one tooth length; preapical prominence approximately aligned to tooth anterior to anteapical one.

Material examined. Guatemala: Alta Verapaz, one male ( USNM) . Mexico: Veracruz-Llave , one female ( 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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