Durgades spatulata Viraktamath

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 49

Durgades spatulata Viraktamath

Figs 220–228.

Durgades spatulata Viraktamath 2004: 374 , figs 48–56. HOLOTYPE ♂, NEPAL: Ghara [UASB, examined].

Color. Coloration and forewing venation similar to those in D. saura .

Male genitalia. Pygofer triangularly produced caudally with dorsal spatulate process having acute dorsal angle, margin minutely crenulate on distal 0.25, dark pigmented, triangular lobe paler. Subgenital plates triangular with short setae. Inner arm of styles slightly longer. Connective widest at base. Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme longer than shaft, with pair of elongate slender processes one on either angle distally; shaft robust with pair of caudal and pair of cephalic short spine-like processes, gonopore larger, apical, laterally expanded near apex. Anal collar weakly developed. Tenth segment elongate.

Female genitalia. Seventh sternite medially broadly angularly excavated, margin blackish.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, NEPAL: Ghara , 8.xi.1981, I. Dworakowska ( UASB) . PARATYPES: 2 ♂, 3 ♀, same data as holotype ; 3 ♂, 9 ♀, Kopchepanj ; 1 ♂, Kyumnu, 16.xi.1981; 1 ♂, Dana, 11.xi.1981; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, Sikha, 6.xi.1981; 2 ♂, Kaka, 9.xi.1981; 1 ♀, Sarkju, 15.xi.1981; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Kamrang forest , 17.xi.1981 ; 1 ♀, Kabre, 8.xi.1981; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, Landrung, 18–19.xi; 1 ♀, Choomro kyummu, 17.xi.1981; 1 ♀, Ghandrung, 16.xi. 1981, all collected by I. Dworakwska; 1 ♂, Kathmandu, Chandrafin, 21.vii.1988 – 26.xi.1979 , V.K. Thapa ( UASB) .

Remarks. D. spatulata and D. saura are closely related species and also resemble each other. However, they differ in the structure of the male pygofer process and the aedeagus as given in the key.