Sangeeta nigra, C.A.Viraktamath, 2011

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 109

Sangeeta nigra sp. nov.

Figs 543–552, 575, 589, 604.

Color. Black with yellow areas. Vertex with one spot on either side of median line visible on face and median stripe black, area between them fuscous, lateral area yellow. Face yellow with a transverse band across ocelli and enclosing them, clypeus, clypellus, lora and antennal cavities, black; scape, most of pedicel yellow, apical area of pedicel fuscous, flagellum and arista dark fuscous. Pronotum black with hind margin yellow. Scutellum black with spot on lateral margin caudad of impressed line, yellowish white. Forewings black with longitudinal band on clavus, apex of clavus and area beyond it on corium and band on costal margin in apical half, white. Mesothoracic sternites and pleurites fuscous, fore tibiae light fuscous, rest of ventral area of thorax greenish yellow.

Morphology. Pronoutm with anterior depressions rather shallow, disk without punctations. Ocelli closer to each other than to adjacent eye.

Male genitalia. Similar to S. sadongensis (see below). Pygofer with rather obliquely truncate caudal margin, with short setae concentrated more in cauadal area, ventrally with concave excavation. Subgenital plates triangular with three stout setae arranged in row. Aedeagus with well developed dorsal apodeme and preatrium. Shaft more or less of uniform width, with lateral flange, gonopore subapcial, in cephalic view flange with angular projection at midlength of shaft. Anal collar well developed, with caudal process produced.

Measurements. Male 4.7 mm long, 1.3 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. INDONESIA: HOLOTYPE ♂, Java: Gunung, Gede , 6.vii.1990, 1800–2000m, I. Dworakowska ( UASB).

Remarks. S. nigra differs from other species of Sangeeta in being black. It resembles S. sadongensis in the male genitalia but differs in having the aedeagus with a lateral flange and having an angular lateral projection at midlength of the shaft and elongate preatrium.