Igerna keyae, C.A.Viraktamath, 2011

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 69-72

publication ID

1175­5334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5293852

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D28787-FFA6-B355-FF3B-4FD7FD09FDAF

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Igerna keyae
status

sp. nov.

Igerna keyae View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 333–342.

Color. Ochraceous with dark brown to black markings on head and pronotum ( Figs 333, 334). Forewings chocolate brown, posterior 0.75 area of clavus, costal area except base, paler. Legs chocolate brown, meso and meta coxae, apices of femora and bases of tibiae, ochraceous.

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

Male genitalia. Caudal lobe of pygofer produced dorsally into spine with small denticle on caudal margin at base of spine. Connective and aedeagus apparently fused, basal part of aedeagus surrounded by connective in lateral aspect, dorsal apodeme well developed, aedeagal shaft slender directed caudally with pair of apical slender processes curved anteriorly and about 0.75 as long as shaft, each process with basal angular projection, gonopore on ventral margin between bases of apical processes. Anal collar process dorsally produced, slender and apically curved into hook.

Measurements. Male 3.95 mm long and 1.2 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Sikkim, Gangtok , 2123 m, 9.vi.2005, C.A. Viraktamath ( UASB).

Remarks. This species is distinctive in possessing a pair of long, recurved, apical processes on the aedeagal shaft. It resembles Igerna violacea (Distant) in the structure of the aedeagus but the aedeagus is much smaller and has much longer processes compared to I. violacea .

UASB

University of Agricultural Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Igerna

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