Apogonalia dampfi Young 1977
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Apogonalia dampfi Young, 1977
(Figs 16–19)
Diagnosis. Anterior dorsum yellow with brown marks; two pairs of narrow, irregular mediolateral longitudinal brown stripes (Young 1977, fig. 750a). Crown with anteromedian pair of diagonal brown arches connected medially. Pronotum with four yellow maculae on disc, one mediolateral pair, elongate, and one lateral pair. Forewing red with brown veins; clavus with brown mark and elongate yellow maculae between claval veins; corium with area of discal cells brown, with large yellow marks; apex dark brown. Face (Fig. 16) with mosaic of irregular brown marks on yellow background of frons. Clypeus with median brown stripe dorsally bifurcated. Male pygofer with inner dorsoapical process, short ventroapical acute process directed mesally (Young 1977, fig. 750p). Paraphyses only with basal sclerite (Young 1977, fig. 750h). Aedeagal shaft with long ventroapical process (Young 1977, fig. 750f). Female sternite VII similar to that of A. blanchardi but with median emargination slight. Sternite VIII (Fig. 17) with two sclerotized plates, anterior one arch-shaped and posterior one subtrapezoidal, smaller.
Female length. 10.1 mm (n = 2).
Description of female genitalia. Sternite VII similar to that of A. blanchardi, with slight median concavity posteriorly. Sternite VIII (Fig. 17), in dorsal view, with anterior arch-shaped sclerotized plate and posterior, smaller subtrapezoidal plate. Pygofer similar to that of A. angusta. Valvula I, in ventral view (Fig. 18), with basal portion moderately broad; basal margin transversely truncate; blade similar to that of A. angusta. Valvula II similar to that of A. angusta; preapical prominence anterior to anteapical tooth (Fig. 19).
Material examined. Costa Rica: Alajuela, one female (USNM); San José, one male and one female (USNM). Guatemala: Chimaltenango, one male (USNM).
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USNM
- Scientific name authorship
- Young
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Cicadellidae
- Genus
- Apogonalia
- Species
- dampfi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Apogonalia dampfi Young, 1977 sec. Felix & Mejdalani, 2017
References
- Young, D. A. (1977) Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Part 2. New World Cicadellini and the genus Cicadella. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 239, 1 - 1135.