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

description: Apogonalia SanguinipeS (Van Duzee, 1907)
(Figs 85–88)
Diagnosis. Anterior dorsum yellow with dark brown marks. Crown with two pairs of narrow, irregular mediolateral longitudinal stripes or with pair of broad longitudinal stripes (Fig. 85), dark brown. Pronotum with pair of anterolateral dark brown maculae adjacent to eyes (Fig. 85); mediolateral portions with two pairs of narrow longitudinal stripes or with pair of broad longitudinal stripes (Fig. 85), dark brown. Mesonotum with (Fig. 85) or without pair of dark brown longitudinal stripes on mesoscutum; anterolateral portions with or without (Fig. 85) pair of large dark brown marks. Forewing pinkish with brown stripes on veins or dark brown with large whitish and pinkish marks (Fig. 85); costal area with or without yellow anterior portion; apical portion with two transverse blackish stripes. Face yellow with dark brown marks. Frons with pair of elongate V-, Y-shaped or triangular mediolateral dark brown marks; lateral margin with dark brown stripe. Clypeus with median dark brown stripe, dorsally bifurcated or not. Paraphyses with rami robust, bifurcated apically (Young 1977, fig. 746h). Aedeagal shaft with pair of ventral processes not transversely aligned in lateral view (Young 1977, fig. 746f). Female sternite VII (Fig. 86) with conspicuous central dark brown macula; posterior margin with trapezoidal emargination. Sternite VIII (Fig. 87) with heart-shaped median sclerite, laterally surrounded by pair of short transverse sclerites. Valvula I, in ventral view, with conspicuous median concavity on basal margin (Fig. 88).
Female length. 7.2–7.8 mm (n = 5).
Description of female genitalia. Sternite VII (Fig. 86) similar to that of A. imitatrix; posterior margin with median trapezoidal emargination bordered by minute spines, with slight triangular central projection. Sternite VIII (Fig. 87), in dorsal view, with heart-shaped median sclerotized plate, laterally surrounded by pair of short transverse sclerites; anterior margin of plate medially concave; posterior margin narrowly convex; sclerites with posterior margin truncate. Pygofer very similar to that of A. interrupta (see Fig. 55). Valvula I, in ventral view (Fig. 88), with basal portion moderately broad; basal margin with conspicuous median concavity; blade similar to that of A. angusta. Valvula II similar to that of A. angusta; teeth very prominent on median portion, 1.5 to 2 times longer than high; preapical prominence approximately aligned to anteapical tooth.
Material examined. Cayman Islands: Grand Cayman, one male (BMNH). Jamaica: Manchester, one male and one female (USNM); Saint Ann, one female (BMNH); Saint James, seven males and thirteen females (BMNH); Saint Mary, one male (BMNH), one male (UKL); Saint Thomas, one female (UKL); Trelawny, one male (USNM); uncertain locality, one male (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 118-119, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1035586