Igerna quinlani, C.A.Viraktamath, 2011

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 75

Igerna quinlani sp. nov.

Figs 327–332.

Color. Ochraceous. Two somewhat round spots on vertex, closer to each other than to eyes, antennal pits, apical spot on frontoclypeus, black. Pronotum with posterior submarginal brownish black band anteromedially conically produced, anterior margin with fuscous to brown spots behind eyes. Basal angles of scutellum with dark brown triangular spots. Forewings pale brown with brownish veins. Thoracic pleura and abdomen dark brown. Female seventh sternite and ovipositor ochraceous.

Morphology. Face including eyes about as wide as long. Ocelli closer to adjacent eyes than to each other.

Male genitalia. Caudal lobe of pygofer with caudal and subcaudal denticles. Styles slender elongate, apical curvature short, with inner arm slender and elongated into attenuated process. Connective broad at base, longer than broad, posterior margin with median U-shaped excavation. Aedeagus fused with connective, dorsal apodeme and socle well developed; shaft compressed and hooked apically and terminating in pair of caudally directed flattened processes, each process with basal denticle on outer margin near base, gonopore subapical and on caudal margin. Anal collar simple, horseshoe shaped.

Female genitalia. Seventh sternite medially carinate with inverted V-shaped posterior margin, medially and apically dark pigmented.

Measurements. Male 3.8 mm long and 1.21 mm wide across eyes. Female 4.0 mm long and 1.29 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. NEPAL: HOLOTYPE ♂, Ghanpokhara , 7000 ft (2123 m), 30.iv.1954, J. Quinlan, B.M. Nepal Expd., B.M. 1954-540 ( BMNH) . PARATYPES: 1 ♂, same data as holotype ; 1 ♂, Ulleri , 6000–7000 ft (1820–2123 m), 19.v.1954, J. Quinlan ; 1 ♀, 2 miles (3.2 Km ), SE of Sikha, 21–22.v.1954, J. Quinlan ( BMNH) .

Remarks. I. quinlani shares the character of fused connective and aedeagus with I. violacea . This species is named after its collector Mr J. Quinlan. Coloration in some specimens is variable. In the paratype male the following areas are black: an inverted Y with broad lateral arms on upper part of face, a larger spot between ocellus and eye, a smaller spot laterad of ocellus, broken submarginal bands of frontoclypeus, inner margin of lora and facial sulci; the basal half of scutellum and a median stripe in the apical half are black. In the female paratype, the submarginal band on the pronotum is reduced to two lateral and one median faint fuscous spots.