Durgades idiocera Pruthi

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 46

Durgades idiocera Pruthi

Figs 196–197.

Durgades idiocera Pruthi 1930: 13–15 ; figs.15–17, pl II, figs. 1, 1a, 2. Viraktamath 2004: 369–370, figs 24–25. SYNTYPES ♂ ♀, PAKISTAN: Murree Hills [ZSI, examined].

Male genitalia. Pygofer shorter than subgenital plates with internal short tooth. Aedeagus with short shaft and apical gonopore surrounded by three curved finger-like processes and one straighter process.

Material examined. SYNTYPES: PAKISTAN: 3 ♂, 6 ♀, Murree , Kachhut, 4412 ft (1247m), 7.ix.1928 (1 ♂, reg. No. 517); Jikka Gal, 6730 ft (2041 m), 17.ix.1928 (1 ♂); Kuldauana, 7006 ft (2124m, 13.ix.1928 (1 ♂) on wild grass, H.S.Pruthi ( ZSI).

Remarks. Pruthi’s (1930) description is quite adequate. This species differs from the other known species of Durgades in lacking cross vein between the claval veins of the forewings. It appears closely related to D. mirabilis judging from the shape of the female seventh sternite.