Austroagallia balii, C.A.Viraktamath, 2011

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 27

Austroagallia balii sp. nov.

Figs 5, 6, 124–127.

Color. Ochraceous, vertex with median stripe, round spot on either side of median line, dark brown to black; face with brown markings on fronto-clypeus and clypellus; antennal pits with large black spot. Pronotum with pair of smaller rather round spots on anterior half and pair of larger roundish spots on posterior half. Basal triangles at base of scutellum brown. Forewings dark brown with claval veins, inner margin, claval suture and costal margin, pale ochraceous. Pleural areas of thorax dark brown to black.

Male genitalia. Pygofer about as long as height, caudal margin bilobed, caudodorsal area with mesal rounded lobe. Subgenital plates triangular. Connective with slightly concave anterior margin, broadest at posterior margin, with rounded less sclerotized lateral lobes. Aedeagus with well developed dorsal apodeme, preatrium short, robust, shaft tubular, robust at base, with minute denticles on dorsal margin, with pair of short ventrally directed processes, left process slightly broader with crenulate margin; gonopore apical. Anal collar process large, hook-like, distal end attenuated; dorsal margin serrated at base.

Measurements. 3.45 mm long, 1.1 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDONESIA: Bali, G. Abang, 1200–1300m, 19.vii.1990, I. Dworakowska ( UASB).

Remarks. A. balii resembles A. distanti sp. nov. (see below) but differs in the shape of the anal collar process and the aedeagal processes. The denticles found on the dorsal margin of shaft in A. balii are absent in A. distanti . The aedeagal shaft processes in A. distanti arise at different levels on the shaft, whereas in A. balii they arise at the same level.