Apogonalia interrupta
Creators: name: Felix, Márcio
name: Mejdalani, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Apogonalia
Apogonalia interrupta

description: Apogonalia interrupta (Signoret, 1855)
(Figs 51–56)
Diagnosis. Anterior dorsum yellow with black marks. Crown with six large black marks, two pairs on anterior margin and one pair between ocelli (Fig. 51). Pronotum (Fig. 51) with pair of anterolateral black maculae adjacent to eyes; mediolateral portions with four anterior black maculae and two posterior ones; disc posteriorly green. Forewing (Figs 51, 52) ochraceous-green with dark brown stripes on veins; corium with anterior portion of costal area yellow; median portion with diagonal dark brown stripe extending from costal margin to inner discal cell; apical portion with two dark transverse stripes. Face yellow with black areas. Frons medially with inverted Vshaped black mark; pair of mediolateral elongate Y-shaped black marks connected to median mark; lateral margin with black stripe. Clypeus with median black stripe. Male pygofer with posterior margin concave, without processes. Paraphyses with Y-shaped basal sclerite, right ramus apical, long and moderately narrowed, left ramus lateromedian, long and strongly narrowed. Aedeagal shaft with long, spiniform dorsoapical process; paired processes on ventroapical portion, right process distinctly shorter than left one. Female sternite VII (Fig. 53) with conspicuous central black macula; shape similar to that of A. imitatrix; posterior margin medially concave with short central spine. Sternite VIII (Fig. 54), in dorsal view, with inconspicuous, weakly sclerotized arch-shaped plate, expanded medially.
Female length. 6.4–7.0 mm (n = 3).
Description of female genitalia. Sternite VII (Fig. 53) similar to that of A. imitatrix; posterior margin with median concavity bearing short central spine. Sternite VIII (Fig. 54), in dorsal view, with inconspicuous, weakly sclerotized arch-shaped plate; median portion of plate expanded. Pygofer (Fig. 55) moderately produced posteriorly; posterior margin narrowly convex in lateral view; disc with oblique dorsal row of long macrosetae extending from central portion to posterodorsal margin, posteroventral portion with long macrosetae on apical 2/3. Valvula I, in ventral view (Fig. 56), with basal portion slightly broad; basal margin narrowly convex; blade similar to that of A. angusta. Valvula II similar to that of A. angusta; teeth, on median portion, very prominent, 1.5 to 2 times longer than high, spaced from one another about twice tooth length; preapical prominence approximately aligned to anteapical tooth.
Material examined. Dominican Republic: Distrito Nacional, one male (USNM); La Vega, one male and one female (UKL); Puerto Plata, one male (USNM); uncertain locality, one male and one female (CMNH). Haiti: Ouest, one male (BMNH), one male and one female (USNM); uncertain locality, one female (USNM).
description: Published as part of Felix, Márcio & Mejdalani, Gabriel, 2017, The sharpshooter geNUs Apogonalia EvaNs (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: CicadelliNi): descriptioN of females aNd key to species, pp. 101-127 in Zootaxa 4338 (1) on pages 109-111, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1035586