Apogonalia noda Freytag 2004
Creators: name: Felix, Márcio
name: Mejdalani, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Apogonalia
Apogonalia noda

description: Apogonalia noda Freytag, 2004
(Fig. 68)
Diagnosis. Anterior dorsum yellow with dark brown marks. Crown (Fig. 68) with two pairs of large black marks on anterior margin, median pair larger and rounded; pair of oblique, elongate dark brown maculae anterior to ocelli; two pairs of narrow, longitudinal dark brown stripes, one between ocelli and one externally to them; ocelli black. Pronotum (Fig. 68) with anterolateral, dark brown elongate maculae adjacent to eye; disc with two pairs, one narrow and one wide, of longitudinal dark brown stripes. Mesonotum (Fig. 68) with pair of narrow, longitudinal dark brown stripes on mesoscutum. Forewing (Fig. 68) red with elongate dark brown maculae on veins; costal area anteriorly yellow, posterior portion with dark brown macula; wing apex including inner apical cell dark; elongate colorless area adjacent to outer anteapical cell. Face yellow with dark brown areas. Frons with broad, longitudinal median brown stripe; transverse dark brown maculae on muscle impression areas. Clypeus with broad, incomplete median brown stripe continuous with that of frons; subapical portion with narrow, transverse dark brown stripe. Male pygofer concave posteriorly, without processes. Paraphyses with Y-shaped basal sclerite, rami long and moderately narrowed, right ramus apical and left one lateromedian. Aedeagal shaft dorsally curved apically, without processes. Female sternite VII with conspicuous central black macula; posterior margin with acute median spine.
Female length. 7.2 mm (n = 1).
Description of female genitalia. Sternite VII moderately produced posteriorly; posterior margin narrowly convex with acute median spine. Sternite VIII absent. Pygofer moderately produced posteriorly; posterior margin broadly convex; disc with some macrosetae on posterior 3/4 of ventral portion and apical portion. Valvula I, in ventral view, with basal portion moderately broad; basal margin oblique; blade similar to that of A. angusta; ventral sculptured area with processes linear and oblique to blade axis. Valvula II, in lateral view, moderately broadened beyond basal curvature, slightly narrowing gradually towards narrowly rounded apex; blade with about 20 teeth distributed from beginning of expanded portion to apex; teeth, on median portion, trapezoidal and moderately prominent, about as long as high, spaced from one another about twice tooth length; preapical prominence distinct, approximately aligned to tooth anterior to anteapical one; denticles distributed on anterior margin of teeth and dorsal margin of blade posteriorly to each tooth, and from preapical prominence to apex on ventral margin.
Material examined. Dominican Republic: Pedernales, one male and one female (CMNH).
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 page 114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1035586