Sangeeta sadongensis, C.A.Viraktamath, 2011

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 104-105

Genus Sangeeta nov.

Type-species: Sangeeta sadongensis sp. nov.

Color. Pale brown with dark brown to black markings or black with ochraceous areas.

Morphology. Vertex medially short, hind margin carinate. Face longer than broad, lora tumid, frontoclypeus narrow. Face dorsad of inverted V-shaped ridge across antennal ledges above ocelli, striate; striae running parallel to each other and those below ocelli inverted V-shaped, those above ocelli arched ( Figs 526, 545). Ocelli closer to each other than to adjacent eyes or as close to each other as to adjacent eye. Pronotum arcuate, anterior half deeply foveately depressed on either side of median ridge, hind margin straight. Forewing venation prominent, veins lighter in color, conspicuously margined by brown, with three anteapical and four apical cells, inner anteapical cell open ( Fig. 552) or closed basally ( Fig. 21). Forefemur with intercalary setae arranged in arcuate row, setae on row AV not enlarged ( Fig. 33). Hind femoral macrosetae 2+1; hind tibial macrosetae PD 13±2, AD 6±1, AV 9±1; hind basitarsus with two platellae on distal transverse row.

Male genitalia. Pygofer with dorsal margin deeply excavated at middle, caudally rounded with number of short, stout, and slender setae. Subgenital plates elongate, with four to six stout setae on ventral surface in one row. Styles with inner arm longer than outer arm. Connective about as long as broad or longer. Aedeagus usually with poorly developed preatrium, dorsal apodeme well developed, bilobed; shaft apically flattened, hood-like, with or without short processes; gonopore subapical. Anal collar well developed, without elaborate processes.

Female genitalia. First pair of valvulae with sculptured area on distal 0.66 length, sculpture submarginal in middle section, alveolate, alveoli closely packed forming long oblique rows ( Figs 88, 89). Second pair of valvulae with basal prominent tubercle, toothed area occupying distal 0.33, with median triangular projection, teeth smooth, prominent, ventroapical area crenulate ( Figs 90–91).

Remarks. Sangeeta resembles Onukigallia Ishihara , but differs in having a longer narrower face, inverted Vshaped ridge across the antennal ledges, vertex striate, anterior depressions on the pronotum laterad of the median ridge, dorsally excavated male pygofer and both pygofer and subgenital plates lacking long hair-like setae. It also resembles closely Paulagallia in the shape of the face and male genitalia but differs in the lack of circular pits and claval cross veins.