Agalliopsis dutrai Goncalves, Mejdalani & Coelho, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Ana Clara
name: Mejdalani, Gabriel
name: Coelho, Luci B. N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Agalliopsis
Agalliopsis dutrai

description: Agalliopsis dutrai Gonçalves, Mejdalani & Coelho, sp. nov.
(Figs 13–19, 65, 66)
Length. Male holotype 3.9 mm; male paratypes 3.8–4.0 mm; female paratypes 3.9–4.4 mm.
Description (holotype). Head and thorax (color). Ground color yellowish-brown. Crown (Figs 13, 14) with pair of dark brown maculae approximately equidistant between eyes and median line; pair of brown to dark brown maculae near inner eye margins; with three triangular brown maculae contiguous to pronotal maculae. Eyes with red tonality. Face (Fig. 14) yellow with slender, inverted Y-shaped brown macula between ocelli; tiny brown maculae around ocelli. Frons (Fig. 14) with small brown maculae forming pair of lateral rows. Pronotum (Fig. 13) with two large, circular brown stripes, each one forming oval figure including brown macula; stripes fused to each other anteriorly, extending to crown and delimiting pair of anterior yellow areas. Mesoscutum (Fig. 13) broadly covered by brown marks; mesoscutellum with pair of dark brown maculae at laterobasal portions.
Male genitalia. Pygofer (Fig. 15), in lateral view, with posterior margin subtruncate. Subgenital plates (Fig. 16), in ventral view, elongate with basal half narrower than apical half; plates fused basally with valve and fused with each other along basal half; in lateral view, extending beyond pygofer apex, dorsal surface with longer scattered setae. Styles (Fig. 17), in lateral view, elongate, with few setae at apical portion, outer fork smaller and rounded, inner fork larger with its basal portion strongly curved, subapical portion with small tooth-like process directed downward. Connective (Fig. 17), in lateral view, linear, fused to aedeagus; subtriangular in dorsal view. Aedeagus (Fig. 17), in lateral view, strongly curved, basal half directed anteriorly and apical half directed posteriorly, curved region enlarged; apical portion of shaft with pair of long spiniform processes directed ventrally; shaft apex, in dorsal view, rounded, gonopore apical (Fig. 18). Anal tube (Fig. 15) with segment X well developed, divided into two parts, with pair of processes expanded towards apex and bearing two tooth-like ventral projections.
Female (color). Abdominal sternite VII (Fig. 19) mostly yellow; laterotergites from segment VIII yellow; pygofer (Fig. 19), in ventral view, yellow, with pair of brown maculae laterally; gonoplacs brown. Other features similar to those of the male holotype.
Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII (Fig. 19), in ventral view, transverse, rectangular, posterior margin with lateral portions oblique and central area slightly concave. First valvulae, in lateral view, dorsally curved from base; dorsolateral surface with oblique rows of scale-like processes on distal 1/2 of shaft; ventroapical region with scale-like processes; apex acute. Second valvulae (Fig. 65), in lateral view, dorsally curved from base, with broadest region at apical 1/4; dorsal hyaline area present; dorsal prominence slightly pronounced; teeth on apical half of dorsal margin, basally small and uniform, increasing in size towards apex (Fig. 66); ventroapical region with tiny rounded teeth; shaft apex rounded. Gonoplacs, in lateral view, expanded along apical half; apex rounded; surface with tiny spiniform processes and setae at apical portion and extending anteriorly along ventral margin.
Etymology. The new species is described in honor of the late Prof. José Alfredo Pinheiro Dutra (Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), who has contributed to our knowledge of Brazilian Agalliinae.
Type material. Holotype: male, Brazil, “ Viçosa, MG [Estado de Minas Gerais], Brasil \ Data 22/XII/1992 \ P. S. Fiuza F. [Ferreira]” (DZRJ). Twenty-three paratypes with same data as holotype, except: one female “ 02/ XII/1981 ” (DZRJ), one female “ 01/IX/1982 ”, two females “ 13/X/1982 ”, one female “ 24/XI/1982 ”, one female “ 09/II/1983 ”, one female “ 01/VI/1983 ”, one male “ 11/VIII/1986 ”, one female “ 11/III/1987 ”, one female “ 14/X/1987 ”, one female “ 10/XI/1987 ”, one male and two females “ 08/I/1988 ”, one female “ 20/V/ 1988 ”, one female “ 08/X/1992 ”, one female “ 20/X/1992 ”, two females “ 29/XII/1992 ” (UFV), one female “ 10/XI/1982 ”, one female “ 02/II/1983 ”, two males “ 14/X/1987 ” (MNRJ).
description: Published as part of Gonçalves, Ana Clara, Mejdalani, Gabriel & Coelho, Luci B. N., 2009, Six new species of Agalliopsis from Southeastern Brazil (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Agalliinae), pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 2014 on pages 4-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185901