Paulagallia punctata, C.A.Viraktamath, 2011

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 104

Paulagallia punctata sp. nov.

Figs 10, 11, 20, 32, 88–91, 509–519, 574, 588, 603.

Male (color). Dark brown. Lower half of face excluding outer margin of gena, band across ocelli extending laterad, two spots closer to each other than to eyes and median stripe on upper part of face, dark brown. Face ventrad of ocelli, outer margin of gena, reddish brown. Ocelli red. Pronotum, scutellum and forewings fuscous. Scattered areas on pronotum, two spots at base, two lateral and apical spots on scutellum, forewing veins, apical cells, brownish yellow. Pronotal and scutellar margins tinged with red. Legs marked with fuscous areas, hind tibial spines brownish yellow.

Female (color). Face reddish-brown with varying degrees of dark shade; median and two anterior spots below ocelli, upper part of face, yellow. Four small spots on hind margin of vertex fuscous. Pronotum light brown, with two basal, two lateral apical yellow spots. Forewings brownish with veins whitish yellow.

Morphology. Head slightly narrower than pronotum. Pronotum longer than scutellum. Pits on pronotum, scutellum and basal half of forewings, circular and prominent. Claval cross vein arising at apex of inner claval vein joining outer claval vein at 0.75 of length.

Male genitalia. Pygofer dorsally excavated, caudally rounded. Connective shield shaped, about as long as broad. Aedeagus with well developed dorsal apodeme, shaft in cephalic view laterally rounded, gonopore large. Tenth segment membranous.

Female genitalia. Caudal margin of seventh sternite truncate. Mesal margin of pygofer with row of spines.

Measurements. Male 5.4–5.8 mm long, 1.5 mm wide across eyes. Female 5.7–5.8 mm long, 1.6 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. EAST MALAYSIA (N. Borneo): Sabah: HOLOTYPE ♂, Mt Kinabalu , 2.xi.1958, Faunula bamboo hut, lot No. 4. T.C. Mss ( BPBM) . PARATYPES 4 ♀, Tenompok , 3.xi.1958, T.C. Maa ( BPBM) ; 1 ♂, same locality but collected on 10–14.ii. 1959, T.C.Maa ( BPBM) . 1 ♀, Sabah: North Borneo: Mt Kinabalu , c 5000 ft, 20–21.vi.1976, stream side forest trail, nr Park H.Q., C.S. NG Collection ( UASB) .

Remarks. One male from Tenompok is paler and has the aedeagal shaft gradually broadened apically and styles slender with inner arm comparatively longer than the outer arm ( Figs 511, 515, 517). These differences appear to be within the range of variation for the species.