Agoo Bahder & Bartlett 2019
Creators: name: Bahder, Brian W.
name: Mou, De-Fen
name: Bartlett, Charles R.
name: Helmick, Ericka E.
name: Bertaccini, Assunta
name: Myrie, Wayne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Agoo

description: Genus Agoo Bahder & Bartlett, 2019
Type species: Agoo xavieri Bahder & Bartlett, 2019
Diagnosis. Head in lateral view smoothly rounded from posterior margin of vertex to frontoclypeal suture. Frons narrow, lacking median carina, lateral carinae foliate; transverse carina at fastigium absent. Paranota strongly foliate, forming fossae that partly surrounds antennae; folia exceeding scape and pedicle, quadrate to semiquadrate in frontal view. Aedeagus and endosoma nearly bilaterally symmetrical; aedeagus with pair of subapical cultrate processes and two pairs of elongate retrorse processes; endosoma with two pairs of elongate retrorse processes. Ventral lobe of pygofer (ventral view) broad, distally attenuating to rounded apex (subtriangular in form). Anal segment ventrally sinuate.
Remarks. The species Omolicna cocoana Rodriguez-Leon & Hidalgo-Gato was described from Cuba (Merino & González 2005). Photographs of this species were solicited but due to the closure of many public institutions globally due to SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, these resources are not available. Based on the description, this species has similarities with A. beani sp. n.. However, some aspects of the wing coloration and armature of the aedeagus appear distinct among the two taxa. Based on the marked similarities, O. cocoana appears to belong in the genus Agoo. The general form of the aedeagus is more similar to that of Agoo by having long, slender processes as well as possessing a subapical tooth on the aedeagus (a feature not present in all species of Agoo but it is shared with A. beani sp. n. as well as A. xavieri and absent in all currently described species of Omolicna). In addition, the anal segment in O. cocoana lacks the strong ventral lobe commonly seen in Omolicna, the general form of the gonostyli is that of Agoo where the expansion in ventral view is a rather large lobe rather than the well-defined hook-like projection seen in Omolicna. Finally, the medioventral process of the pygofer in O. cocoana is a small, subtriangular process that is not ornate, very similar to A. beani sp. n. and lacks the lateral teeth or ornate form that is observed in Omolicna. Because of these morphological similarities as well as salient features being more similar to described taxa in Agoo, we herein move O. cocoana to the genus Agoo (as Agoo cocoana (Rodriguez-Leon & Hidalgo-Gato), new combination), bringing the number of species in the genus to seven; A. beani sp. n., A. cocoana, A. dahliana, A. luzdenia, A. rubrimarginata, A. spina, and A. argutiola.
description: Published as part of Bahder, Brian W., Mou, De-Fen, Bartlett, Charles R., Helmick, Ericka E., Bertaccini, Assunta & Myrie, Wayne, 2020, A new species of planthopper in the genus Agoo Bahder & Bartlett (Hemiptera Fulgoroidea: Derbidae) from coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) in Jamaica, pp. 254-264 in Zootaxa 4853 (2) on page 257, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4853.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4498224