Anaceratagallia robusta (Pruthi) C.A.Viraktamath, 2011

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 17-18

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scientific name	Anaceratagallia robusta (Pruthi)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Anaceratagallia robusta (Pruthi) View in CoL comb. nov.

Figs 3, 4, 14, 23, 41–44, 109–120, 563, 577, 592.

Agallia robusta Pruthi 1930: 10–12 , Figs.10–12, pl.1, figs 5, 5a. SYNTYPES ♂ ♀, PAKISTAN: Murre Hills [ZSI, examined]. Agallia delhiensis Kameswara Rao and Ramakrishnan 1978a: 241 View in CoL , fig. 3 a–l. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Delhi [NPC, examined].

syn. nov.

Color. Ochraceous. Vertex with two large round spots and median fuscous stripe. Face with fuscous markings, lateral areas of fronto-clypeus marked with dark brown spots. Pronotum with two semicircular spots on anterior margin of pronotum, black; median larger spot and lateral somewhat triangular spot on either side on posterior margin, dark brown. Basal triangles of scutellum, two dots near middle, black; posterior half of scutellum brown. Forewings with fuscous veins and some cells infuscated.

Male genitalia. Ventral spine-like process of pygofer slender, short. Aedeagus with shaft of uniform width, gonopore subapical with length in lateral aspect equal to length of shaft beyond it. Anal collar process with dorsal finger-like projection, with caudal margin oblique, crenulate to smooth.

Female genitalia. Hind margin of seventh sternite concave with lateral margins slightly caudally produced.

Measurements. Male 3.37 (3.0–3.6) mm long and 1.1 mm wide across eyes. Female 3.77 (3.5–3.9) mm long and 1.3 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. INDIA: HOLOTYPE ♂ and 7 ♂ PARATYPES: Delhi, 2.iv.1974, ex Berseem, P. Kameswara Rao, Agallia delhiensis (NPC) . Additional material: 1 ♂, 2 ♀, Delhi, 23.iv.1975, C.A. Viraktamath ( UASB) . Karnataka: 2 ♂, 2 ♀, Dharwar , ii.1970 (1 ♂), 22.x.1969 (2 ♀), H.M. Harris ( UASB) . PAKISTAN: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, SYNTYPES (male with abdomen missing), Murree Hills , x.1928, H.S. Pruthi, Agallia robusta Pruthi ( ZSI) . Wazaristan : N.W. India: iii–iv.1930, Rev G. Palacios B.M. 1931-1 ( BMNH) .

Remarks. This species closely resembles A. laevis (Ribaut) from which it can be differentiated by the shape of the anal collar process.