Formallia longistyla, C.A.Viraktamath, 2011

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 54

Formallia longistyla sp. nov.

Figs 259–264.

Color. Pale yellowish-brown. Two spots on vertex nearer to each other than to eyes, speck below each ocellus, dark brown. Triangular spot on anterior margin of pronotum behind vertex, two round spots on either side of this spot and two larger triangular spots on posterior half of pronotum, brown; anterior margin of pronotum and faint median line brown. Scutellum with basal triangles dark brown; area around median impressed line brownish. Some cross veins and apical margin of forewings brownish.

Male genitalia. Subgenital plates broad at base, somewhat triangular with sinuate lateral margins, pointed apically, with marginal short setae, lacking hair-like long setae. Pygofer lobe excavated on ventral margin, sloping down caudo-ventrally; with number of setae on caudal margin. Anal collar sptatulate with reticulate apical lobe. Connective lacking apical bilobed structure. Inner arm of styles much elongated, laterally curved with tooth on ventral aspect, inner margin corrugated. Aedeagus with short preatrium, dorsal apodeme well developed, gonopore subapical.

Female. Unknown.

Measurements. Male 5.3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, TAIWAN: M. Kato ( BMNH).

Remarks. F. longistyla resembles F. ishiharai and F. longipenis but differs in having an elongate inner arm of the male style and lacking hair-like setae on the subgenital plates.