Hemagallia plotina (Distant) C.A.Viraktamath, 2011

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 60-61

publication ID	11755334
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5293830
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D28787-FFD9-B32E-FF3B-4DB6FC96FF3E
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Hemagallia plotina (Distant)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Hemagallia plotina (Distant) View in CoL comb. nov.

Figs 282–285, 568, 582, 597.

Agallia plotina Distant 1908: 194 View in CoL , fig. 127. SYNTYPE ♂, INDIA: Bengal [BMNH, examined]

Agallia rugosa Distant 1912: 607 View in CoL ; 1916: 228–229, fig. 167. SYNTYPE ♂, INDIA: N. Bengal [BMNH, examined] syn. nov. Agallia bhuntra Sawai Singh 1969: 359–361 View in CoL , figs 60–64. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Chandigarh [PAU, not examined] syn. nov.

Color. Pale reddish brown to dark brown with whitish or pale marginal stripe on clavus along claval suture, more pronounced in male than in female. Face ochraceous, sutures on face, apex of clypellus, antennal pits in male, fuscous. Ocelli pink or brown. Female from Nepal and holotype male of H. rugosa View in CoL darker in color, the lateral margins of pronotum, basal angles and central spot on scutellum, anal angle and central area of forewings, fuscous, these areas ochraceous in holotype male of H. plotina View in CoL . Costa of forewings broadly hyaline. Thoracic pleura with fuscous areas. Abdominal sterna dark brown in male, paler in female.

Male genitalia. Pygofer elongate, caudal lobe membranous bearing number of setae; tergum completely sclerotized and pigmented. Subgenital plates pointed caudally. Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme concavely excavated both ventrally and apically, shaft strongly curved, without processes. Anal collar with hook-like process directed ventro-caudally, pointed apically.

Female genitalia. Hind margin of seventh sternite concave and medially pigmented.

Measurements. Male 2.5 (2.4–2.7) mm long, 1.0 (1.0–1.1) mm wide across eyes. Female 2.7 mm long, 1.1 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. INDIA: West Bengal: SYNTYPE ♂, Bengal, Distant Coll., 1911-383, Agallia plotina Dist. ( BMNH) ; SYNTYPE ♂, N. Bengal, Distant Coll., 1911-383, Agallia rugosa Dist. ( BMNH) . Additional material: NEPAL: 1 ♀, Pokhara, 910m, 18–29. ix.1965, L.W. Quate ( BPBM) .

Remarks. This species resembles H. biplagiata but differs in lacking the arrowhead shaped apex of the aedeagal shaft of that species and by the concave female seventh sternite. The synonymy of A. bhuntra is based on the published description and illustration by Sawai Singh (1969).