Austroagallia sarobica (Dlabola)

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 34

Austroagallia sarobica (Dlabola)

Figs 152–155.

Peragallia sarobica Dlabola, 1964: 246 . HOLOTYPE ♂ [not examined].

Austroagallia sarobica (Dlabola) : Dlabola, 1972: 218, generic placement; Bindra, 1973: 4; Viraktamath & Sohi, 1980: 289, figs 29–33.

Color. Yellowish white. Two small round spots on vertex and posterior part of pronotum, black. Two spots on corium, one spot at tip of clavus and spots on some veins pale fuscous. Pronotum with minute punctures.

Male genitalia. Dorsal margin of pygofer sinuate, caudal lobe rounded. Anal collar process tridentate. Aedeagus with well developed dorsal apodeme, shaft narrowed distally, with short preatrium, with basal process arising on one side of shaft about as long as shaft, with serrated margins; in caudal view shaft broad basally with triangular projection at base of shaft, gonopore apical.

Measurements. Male 4.0 mm long and 1.3 mm wide across eyes. Female 4.3 mm long and 1.4 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. INDIA: Punjab: 4 ♂, 4, ♀ Abohar, 6.xi.1968, ex Amaranthus sp. , A. S. Sohi; 25 ♂, Punjab Rajasthan border: 10.xi. 1968, ex Aerva javanica, A.S. Sohi ( PAU); Rajasthan: 1 ♂, Jamsar (N. Bikaner), 16.xi.1968, ex Aerva tomentosa (BMNH) .

Remarks. This species closely resembles A. robusta externally in having smaller round spots on the vertex and pronotum, but has entirely different male genitalia and forewings lack subdivided anteapical cells. This species is apparently widely distributed in the Afrotropical, southern Palaearctic, northern and north-western parts of Oriental region ( Sawai Singh and Gill 1973; Viraktamath and Sohi 1980). Bindra (1973) collected this species on Aerva javanica Juss. , Amaranthus (Amaranthaceae) , Gossypium arboreum Linn. (Malvaceae) , Pennisetum typoideum Rich. (Poaceae) , Tribulus terrestris Linn. (Zygophyllaceae) , and Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. (Solanaceae) .