Igerna himalayensis, C.A.Viraktamath, 2011

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 69

Igerna himalayensis sp. nov.

Figs 321–326.

Color. Ochraceous. Vertex with two large round black spots and median black line continued on face as inverted Tshaped patch enclosing ocelli. Most of lower part of face black. Broad triangular patch covering most of pronotum black except fuscous spot on pronotum behind eye and posterior submargin of pronotum. Scutellum black except posterior margin beyond median impressed line, dark fuscous. Forewings testaceous.

Morphology. Face including eyes as wide as long. Ocelli closer to adjacent eyes than to each other.

Male genitalia. Caudal lobe of pygofer rounded with mesal lobe ending in pair of teeth. Styles with inner arm slightly longer than outer one. Connective heavily pigmented, longer than broad, apical half thin, lamellate and bilobed. Aedeagus with poorly developed dorsal apodeme, preatrium short, stout with pair of subequal spine-like processes, shaft strongly curved caudally, apex drawn into thin process, gonopore subapical, surrounded on lower margin by collar, laterally by unequal processes and shaft prolonged beyond gonopore into elongate process ( Fig.326). Anal collar caudoventrally directed, apically pointed.

Female genitalia. Hind margin of seventh sternite shallowly, concavely excavated in middle.

Measurements. Male and female 3.3 mm long, 1.1 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. INDIA: HOLOTYPE ♂, West Bengal: E. Himalayas: Kurseong 4700–5000 ft (1425– 1517 m), 20.vi.1910, Annanadale, 2521/21, Indian Museum ( BMNH) . PARATYPES: INDIA: West Bengal: 1 ♀, Kurseong , 5000 ft (1517 m), E. Himalayas, 5.vii.1908, N.Annandale, from Indian Museum, Distant Coll. B.M. 1911-383( BMNH) .

Remarks. The right fore and hind wings and most of legs are mutilated and left wings are entirely missing in the unique male. Distant’s manuscript name “ himalayensis ” (on the specimen with the word “ Type ”) is retained for the species. I. himalayensis and I. darjeelingensis resemble male Japanagallia in coloration but can be distinguished by the absence of claval cross veins and shape of the vertex. This species has unique male genitalia and can be distinguished from other species of Igerna by its pronotal coloration and peculiar aedeagus.