Austroagallia robusta Sawai Singh and Gill

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 33-34

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5293783
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scientific name	Austroagallia robusta Sawai Singh and Gill
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Austroagallia robusta Sawai Singh and Gill View in CoL

Figs 36, 148–151.

Austroagallia robusta Sawai Singh and Gill 1973 View in CoL , In Bindra, 1973: 14–15, pl 4: figs 1–11; Viraktamath and Sohi, 1980: 287, figs 11–16. Holotype ♂, INDIA [PAU, examined].

Color. Creamy white, one tiny spot on either side of median line on vertex and on posterior half of pronoutm, dark brown.

Morphology. Forewings narrowed posteriorly, anteapical cells with numerous cross veins. Hind basitarsus with scale-like seate on plantar surface ( Fig. 36).

Male genitalia. Dorsal margin of pygofer with small hump before posterior apex. Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme well developed, shaft with subapical gonopore, apex acutely pointed beyond gonopore; ventral lamellate process with crenulate margin, angle of dorsal lamellate process more dorsal than ventral lamellate process. Inner arm of styles about as long as outer arm. Anal collar process terminated by rather stout hook, apex of hook not exceeding ventral margin of process.

Female genitalia. Hind margin of seventh sternite shallowly concavely curved.

Measurements: Male 4.1 mm long, 1.25 mm wide across eyes. Female 4.35 mm long, 1.3 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. INDIA: HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Punjab: Gumjal , ex Crotolaria burhia , 10.xi.1968 ( PAU). Additonal material: Delhi: 1 ♀, Delhi, IARI Campus, 24.iv.1975, C.A. Viraktamath ( UASB); Rajasthan: 3 ♂, 4 ♀, Bikaner, 8–10.xi. 1968, Sawai Singh ( PAU).

Remarks. A. robusta has an aedeagus of the sinuata-prachuabensis type, but it differs in having a simple curved, rather stout anal collar process. Externally it differs from these and other species of Austroagallia in having a pair of very small speckle-like spots on the vertex and pronotum and reticulate piceous venation on the disc of the corium. Bindra (1973) collected this species on Crotalaria burhia Buchan. (Papilionaceae) .