Agalliota
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Ana Clara
name: Mejdalani, Gabriel
name: Coelho, Luci B. N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Agalliota

description: Key to the species of Agalliota (males)
1. Pronotum with brown, somewhat V­shaped macula on median portion (Fig. 10), arms of “V” fused on anterior pronotal portion .................... A. dentata Oman, 1938 (Brazil)
­ Pronotum with V­shaped macula different from above (arms not fused) or without such macula................................................................................................................... 2
2. Aedeagus with apex bifurcate or bearing processes or with its posterior portion bent caudad, flattened dorsoventrally and spatulate in dorsal view...................................... 3
­ Aedeagus with apex simple, not bifurcate nor spatulate and without processes........... 7
3. Anal tube with processes............................................................................................... 4
­ Anal tube without processes.......................................................................................... 6
4. Pygofer with two projections on posteroventral margin, with deep emargination between these projections (Fig. 12)............................................................................... 5
­ Pygofer with posteroventral margin simple, without projections ................................... ........................................................................................... A. maculata sp. nov. (Brazil)
5. Pygofer with a small hook on posterior margin, which extends upward and slightly inward, located above the projections of ventral portion (Fig. 12)................................. ........................................................................................ A. parma Oman, 1938 (Brazil)
­ Pygofer without such hook above the projections of ventral portion ............................. ....................................................................................... A. clavata Oman, 1938 (Brazil)
6. Aedeagus apex, in dorsal view, bearing pair of long lateral processes extending basally and curved outwards (Fig. 13) .......................... A. vetusta Dutra & Egler, 1982 (Brazil)
­ Aedeagus apex, in dorsal view, with pair of short lateral processes extending basally but curved inwards and with additional pair of small spine­like processes forming right angle with aedeagal shaft (Fig. 14) .................... A. parallela Oman, 1938 (Brazil)
7. Subgenital plates each with pair of spine­like processes apically (Fig. 11).................... ............................................................................... A. scutaria Oman, 1938 (Argentina)
­ Subgenital plates simple, without such processes........................................................... A. punctata (Oman, 1934) (Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago, Peru, Brazil)
description: Published as part of Gonçalves, Ana Clara, Mejdalani, Gabriel & Coelho, Luci B. N., 2006, Agalliota maculata sp. nov. from Brazil and a key to the species of the genus (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Agalliinae), pp. 31-38 in Zootaxa 1225 on page 36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172655