Japanagallia yoshimotoi, C.A.Viraktamath, 2011

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 95

Japanagallia yoshimotoi sp. nov.

Figs 466–471.

Color. Dark brown with black areas. Facial coloration as in J. curvata . Pronotum black except for ochraceous lateral and caudal margins. Scutellum black, two lateral spots yellowish white. Forewing cells, thoracic pleura and legs fuscous to black, venation paler.

Male genitalia. Pygofer caudally sinuate, dorsocaudal margin mesally curved and produced into horn-like process. Connective about as long as broad, black pigmented. Aedeagus very broadly U-shaped, preatrial process triangular, longer than aedeagal shaft, caudally directed, apically pointed, aedeagal shaft short, stout, with two lateral, one dorsal and one ventral lamellate expansions and with prepical pair of short ventrally directed processes, gonopore apical.

Measurements. Male 5.06 –5.16 mm long, 1.57 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. TAIWAN: HOLOTYPE ♂, Kwatzeling: Tainan: Hsien , 250 m, 6–7.iv.1965, C.M. Yoshimoto ( BPBM) . PARATYPE: 1 ♂, Alishan: Chiyai: Hsien , 2270 m, 8–9.iv.1965, Malaise trap, C.M. Yoshimoto ( BPBM) .

Remarks. J. yoshimotoi resembles J. curvata and J. javana from which it differs in having lamellate expansions on the aedeagal shaft in the form of ridges, and in the shape of the pygofer.