Durgades mirabilis Pruthi

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

Durgades mirabilis Pruthi

Durgades mirabilis Pruthi 1930: 12–13 , figs 13, 14, pl. I, figs 6, 6a, 7, 7a, 7b. SYNTYPES ♂ ♀, INDIA: Yatung [ZSI, examined].

“Fuscous, male darker than female. Head distinctly broader than pronotum. Vertex extremely short, especially in the middle, marked with threee black stripes (rather faint and indistinct in the female), which are continued on the frons, where the median one bifurcates and its branches end at the bases of the antennae. Face broader than long; frons flat, its lower half with broad, black stripes (broken in irregular patches in the female) along the lateral margins. Ocelli conspicuous. Clypeus [Clypellus] rectangular, with a dark median longitudinal fascia in the female. Lorae and genae not reaching the apex of the clypeus. Genae deeply sinuate below the eyes. Pronoutm short, broad, with a pair of minute dark spots near the anterior margin, which is slightly produced between the eyes; the posterior margin deeply notched in the middle; a median longitudinal black stripe on the disc present only in the male. Scutellum deeply, transversely impressed about the middle of its length” ( Pruthi, 1930).

Material examined. SYNTYPES 2♂, 3♀, SIKKIM: Yatung , 10,000 ft (3033m), viii–ix.1927, F.M.Bailey ( ZSI) .

Remarks. As Pruthi did not dissect the male genitalia of the type specimens and the author was not allowed to dissect the same, no comment can be made on the relationships of the species. However, Pruthi’s (1930) description is quite adequate to distinguish the species based on the pronotal color.