Austroagallia torrida Evans

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 37

Austroagallia torrida Evans

Figs 159–164, 564, 578, 593.

Austroagallia torrida Evans 1935: 70 . Nielson 1968: 39–41. TYPE ♂, ♀, AUSTRALIA [not examined].

Color. Ochraceous. Two round spots on either side of median line, median stripe and stripe along inner margins of eyes, black. Face with brown markings in upper part and submarginally on frontoclypeus; sutures on face dark brown; antennal cavity with dark brown to black spot, in some specimens divided into two spots. Pronotum with two larger spots on posterior half and in many specimens smaller round spots anterior to them, dark brown to black; anterior margin and median stripe in darker specimens fuscous. Forewing venation and claval cells brown. Claws dark brown.

Male genitalia. Pygofer with dorsal margin convex in posterior half, caudal lobe either rounded or sinuate, with slight thickning running on dorsal half. Anal collar with posterior slender hook with its apex exceeding ventral margin of process. Aedeagus with triangular expansion on shaft and on dorsal apodeme, latter variable and totally lacking in some specimns, dorsal apodeme well developed.

Female genitalia. Seventh sternite truncate caudally.

Measurements. Male 3.53 (3.4–3.7) mm long, 1.08 (1.06–1.12) mm wide across eyes. Female 3.68 (3.6–4.0) mm long, 1.15 (1.12–1.2) mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. AUSTRALIA: 4 ♂ and ♀, Brisbane ( JWE) ; 3 ♂, Coonabarabran , 19.i.1965, M.I. Nikitin ( BMNH) ; 3 ♂, 4 ♀, Narrobri , 28.xii.1959, M.I.Nikitin ( BMNH) ; 7 ♂ and ♀, Perth, J.W. Evans ( JWE) . GOOD ENOUGH IS: 2 ♂, 1 ♀, Virigran , 8–23.ii.1952, G.M. Rio ( NMNH) . LOYALTY IS: 1 ♂, 2 ♀, Mare Is, La roche, iii.1959, N.L.H. Krauss ( BPBM) . NEW HEBRIDES: 1 ♂, Makekula: Amok , 17.ix.1958, B. Malkin ( BPBM) . SOLOMON Is: 1 ♂, 2 ♀, Guadal Canal, Kukum , 16.ii.1964, M. Mc. Quilan ( BMNH) . INDONESIA: 1 ♂ 1 ♀, Jogdjakarta , viii.1971, ex Arachis hypogea Linn., Triharso ( UASB) ; 2 ♂, Java, Bogor , 400m, 24.xi–1.xii.1986, M.R. Wilson, BM 1987-204 ( BMNH) .

Remarks. This species has a wider distribution than Evans (1971) reported. A male specimen from the New Hebrides is darker in color with the pronotum bearing two large lateral dark brown stripes, and a median light brown stripe. The aedeagus in this specimen is similar to typical A. torrida but the triangular expansion on the shaft is smaller. One male specimen from Indonesia is similar in coloration but lacks the triangular process on the dorsal apodeme, however, the specimens from Bogor (though similar) have a small projection on the dorsal apodeme.