Apogonalia pennata Nielson & Godoy, 1995

Felix, Márcio & Mejdalani, Gabriel, 2017, The sharpshooter geNUs Apogonalia EvaNs (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: CicadelliNi): descriptioN of females aNd key to species, Zootaxa 4338 (1), pp. 101-127 : 115

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.5

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6039774

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scientific name

Apogonalia pennata Nielson & Godoy, 1995
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Apogonalia pennata Nielson & Godoy, 1995 View in CoL

( Figs 75–77 View FIGURES 75 – 84 )

Diagnosis. Anterior dorsum almost entirely black. Pronotum ( Fig. 75 View FIGURES 75 – 84 ) with small white maculae. Mesonotum ( Fig. 75 View FIGURES 75 – 84 ) posteriorly white. Forewing ( Fig. 75 View FIGURES 75 – 84 ) uniformly red; apical portion dark. Face almost entirely black. Clypeus laterally white and with large dorsal black macula. Male pygofer posteriorly truncate with inner, ventroapical short tapered spine, medially directed. Paraphyses with Y-shaped basal plate; rami long and narrow, with strong subapical expansion and apex acute, right ramus apical and left one subapical. Aedeagal shaft with basiventral paired hook processes, anteriorly directed. Female sternite VII ( Fig. 76 View FIGURES 75 – 84 ) with posterior margin broadly convex with median trapezoidal emargination bordered by minute spines and slight central triangular projection. Sternite VIII ( Fig. 77 View FIGURES 75 – 84 ), in dorsal view, with broad, subtrapezoidal bilobate sclerotized plate; anterior margin truncate with deep and broad median emargination.

Female length. 9.6–10.0 mm (n = 3).

Description of female genitalia. Sternite VII ( Fig. 76 View FIGURES 75 – 84 ) slightly produced posteriorly; posterior margin broadly convex with median trapezoidal emargination bordered by minute spines and slight central triangular projection. Sternite VIII ( Fig. 77 View FIGURES 75 – 84 ), in dorsal view, with broad, subtrapezoidal bilobate sclerotized plate; anterior margin of plate truncate, with deep and broad median emargination; posterior margin broadly concave. Pygofer similar to that of A. angusta . Valvula I, in ventral view, with basal portion very similar to that of A. blanchardi ; blade similar to that of A. angusta . Valvula II similar to that of A. angusta ; teeth spaced from one another about one tooth length on median portion of blade.

Material examined. Costa Rica: Limón, four males and four females ( BYU).

Nielson, M. W. & Godoy, C. (1995) A new genus and new species of cicadelline leafhoppers from Costa Rica (Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae). Contributions on Entomology, International, 1, 189 - 204.

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FIGURES 75 – 84. (75 – 77) Apogonalia pennata Nielson & Godoy, 1995, female: 75, dorsal habitus; 76, sternite VII, ventral view; 77, sternite VIII, dorsal view. (78 – 82) A. pinguis Young, 1977, female: 78, dorsal habitus; 79, left forewing, lateral view; 80, sternite VII, ventral view; 81, sternite VIII, dorsal view; 82, pygofer, lateral view. (83 – 84) A. robusta (Walker, 1851), female: 83, sternite VIII, dorsal view; 84, pygofer, lateral view. Scale bars in mm.

BYU

Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Tribe

Cicadellini

Genus

Apogonalia