Austroagallia nitobei (Matsumura)

Dai, Wu & Zhang, Yalin, 2012, Taxonomic revision of the leafhopper tribe Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) from China, with description of new taxa, Zootaxa 3430, pp. 1-49 : 7

Austroagallia nitobei (Matsumura)

Figs. 2 A, E, I, 8A–H.

Agallia nitobei Matsumura, 1912: 316 .

Austroagallia nitobei (Matsumura) : Viraktamath, 1973:307 –309, Figs 1 , 2 .

Material examined. 1Ƥ, CHINA: Hainan, Jianfengling, 7. vi. 2007, 940m, Duan Yani.

Distribution. China (Hainan, Taiwan), India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.

Remarks. This is a very widely distributed species in the Oriental region ( Viraktamath, 2011). It is here recorded for the first time from mainland China. It closely resembles the Palaearctic Austroagallia avicula (Ribaut) from which it differs in the shape of the aedeagus and apical process of the shaft. The single female collected from China differs from the typical form in lacking a small brown spot below the base of the antennae on the gena ( Fig. 8 B). The male illustrated in Fig. 8 is from India (Karnataka).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Species of Chinese Agalliini. A, E, I, Anaceratagallia ribauti; B, F, J, Anaceratagallia venosa; C, G, K, Dryodurgades formosana; D, H, L, Dryodurgades lamellaris. [A – D. Habitus, dorsal view; E – H. Habitus, lateral view; I – L. Face].

FIGURE 2. Species of Chinese Agalliini. A, E, I, Austroagallia nitobei; B, F, J, Durgades nigropicta; C, G, K, Onukigallia fanjingensis; D, H, L, Onukigallia onukii. [A – D. Habitus, dorsal view; E – H. Habitus, lateral view; I – L. Face].

FIGURE 8. Austroagallia nitobei (Matsumura). A. Crown, pronotum and mesonotum, dorsal view; B. Face; C. Male genital capsule, lateral view; D. Subgenital plates and valve, ventral view; E. Aedeagus, caudal view; F. Apex of aedeagal shaft, caudodorsal view; G. Aedeagus, connective and style, lateral view; H. Connective, anterodorsal view.