Japanagallia pteridis (Matsumura)

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 91

Japanagallia pteridis (Matsumura)

Figs 451–455.

Agallia pteridis Matsumura 1905: 68 . SYNTYPE ♂, ♀, JAPAN (EIHU, not examined)

Japanagallia pteridis (Matsumura) : Ishihara 1955: 215, figs1, 1 and 2, fig. 2, 1.

Color. Coloration as described by Matsumura (1905).

Male genitalia. Pygofer with dorsal triangular blade-like process, caudal margin rounded ventrally directed. Subgenital plates exceeding pygofer. Aedeagus with atrium well developed, shaft broad at base, caudally directed, abruptly upturned dorsally, tubular with oblique apical gonopore on caudal margin, pair of short processes at base on dorsal margin of shaft. Anal collar process not well developed.

Remarks. This species resembles J. tappana in the shape of the male pygofer but differs in the structure of the aedeagus and lacking stout conical spines on the pygofer.