Anaceratagallia (Anaceratagallia) harrarensis ( Melichar, 1911 )

Tishechkin, Dmitri Yu., 2020, Review of the leafhopper genus Anaceratagallia Zachvatkin, 1946 (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae: Agalliini) from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia, Zootaxa 4821 (2), pp. 250-276 : 265-268

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4821.2.2

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4398464

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Anaceratagallia (Anaceratagallia) harrarensis ( Melichar, 1911 )
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7. Anaceratagallia (Anaceratagallia) harrarensis ( Melichar, 1911) View in CoL

Figs. 4, 163–176, 189–190

Agallia halophila Lindberg, 1954: 197–198 View in CoL .

Agallia halophila brevispina Linnavuori, 1956: 162–163 .

Anaceratagallia halophila iranicola Dlabola, 1960: 8 .

Anaceratagallia (Anaceratagallia) mangyschlaki Mityaev, 1969a: 365–366 View in CoL . Syn. n.

Anaceratagallia (Anaceratagallia) caesia Mityaev, 1969a: 366 View in CoL . Syn. n.

Description. Unlike other species, which are similar to each other in coloration, A. (A.) harrarensis is distinctly lighter, with less developed dark pattern (Fig. 4). Penis similar to that of A. (A.) camphorosmatis , but stem slightly narrower and directed obliquely upwards ( Figs. 163, 165, 167, 169, 171 View FIGURES 163–188 ). Male anal collar appendage smooth, gradually extends distally and sharply tapers in last one-fourth, its apical part asymmetrical, with pointed tip on dorsal side ( Figs. 164, 168, 172 View FIGURES 163–188 ) or in dorsal half ( Figs. 166, 170 View FIGURES 163–188 ).

Biology. In the Canary Islands A. (A.) harrarensis was collected on halophytic Chenopodiaceae ( Lindberg, 1954) . In Turkmenistan was collected at light in salty clay desert. In general, all records of this species are confined to the desert zone.

Calling signal. Signals of one male from Southern Turkmenistan (Dushak Village ca. 170 km South-east of Ashgabad, collected at light, 24. V. 1990, recording at 28 oC) were investigated .

General structure of the calling signal is the same as in A. (A.) venosa , A. (A.) chalchica , A. (A.) laevis , and A. (A.) camphorosmatis ( Fig. 189 View FIGURES 189–203 ), but its second part consists of simple pulses, following each other at a rate of about 35/s in our recordings ( Fig. 190 View FIGURES 189–203 ).

Distribution. Desert zone of Western Palaearctic: Canary Islands, northern Africa, deserts of western and southwestern Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Iran, possibly, also India; in the South it is distributed outside the Palaearctic in Ethiopia. The record from Ukraine by Logvinenko (1984) in fact belongs to A. (A.) camphorosmatis (see above).

Remarks. This species was described from Harrar, Ethiopia ( Melichar, 1911). Later it was described by Lindberg (1954) from the Canary Islands under the name Agallia halophila Lindberg, 1954 ; also, two subspecies, A. (A.) halophila brevispina Linnavuori, 1956 from Melilla, Spanish Morocco (based on one male) and A. (A.) halophila iranicola Dlabola, 1960 from Iran were described. A. halophila was placed in synonymy under A. (A.) harrarensis by Heller and Linnavuori (1968).

Mityaev (1969a) described two species, A. (A.) mangyschlaki Mityaev, 1969 and A. (A.) caesia Mityaev, 1969 , from the deserts of Kazakhstan; both original descriptions are based on single males. From the illustrations (reproduced as Figs. 173–176 View FIGURES 163–188 ) it is clear, that both specimens fall into the variability range of A. (A.) harrarensis from Turkmenistan and Iran.

Also, two more taxa similar to A. (A.) harrarensis were described as follows:

Agallia leda Linnavuori, 1971 – from Tunisia, based on one male, which differs from typical A. (A.) harrarensis by the somewhat wider penis in side view and another shape of male anal collar appendage.

A. (A.) pararobusta (Pruthi, 1936) – from India which is almost identical to A. (A.) harrarensis in genitalia structure ( Viraktamath, 2011 and our data; Figs. 177–180 View FIGURES 163–188 ). Apparently, the same species is illustrated by Khatri et al. (2010) under the name Agallia robusta Pruthi, 1930 ( Figs. 181–182 View FIGURES 163–188 ).

Since some species of Anaceratagallia are difficult to distinguish by morphology, although they differ well in signal temporal pattern, the establishment of synonymy of the two above listed taxa with A. (A.) harrarensis without acoustic or molecular studies would seem to be premature.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Anaceratagallia

Loc

Anaceratagallia (Anaceratagallia) harrarensis ( Melichar, 1911 )

Tishechkin, Dmitri Yu. 2020
2020
Loc

Anaceratagallia (Anaceratagallia) mangyschlaki

Mityaev, I. D. 1969: 366
1969
Loc

Anaceratagallia (Anaceratagallia) caesia

Mityaev, I. D. 1969: 366
1969
Loc

Anaceratagallia halophila iranicola

Dlabola, J. 1960: 8
1960
Loc

Agallia halophila brevispina

Linnavuori, R. 1956: 163
1956
Loc

Agallia halophila

Lindberg, H. 1954: 198
1954
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