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

description: Apogonalia loxa Freytag, 2004
(Fig. 61)
Diagnosis. Anterior dorsum (Fig. 61) yellow with black marks. Crown (Fig. 61) pale yellow with six black maculae, two pairs on anterior margin and one pair between ocelli; pair of anteromedian, diagonal black arches; small black maculae between eye and ocellus and posterior to eye. Pronotum (Fig. 61) with anterior third pale yellow and posterior two-thirds greenish-yellow; pair of broad black maculae posterior to eyes; small elongate black maculae on median portion. Mesonotum (Fig. 61) pale yellow with pair of elongate, anterior black maculae connected to each other on transverse sulcus. Forewing (Fig. 61) brown with costal area greenish-yellow and dark brown stripes on veins; corium with three broad transverse white to yellow stripes bordered by dark brown. Face pale yellow with pair of longitudinal black stripes on frons, converging to median stripe on clypeus; lateral portion of frons with black area; gena pale yellow with black, vertical narrow stripe near posterior margin. Male pygofer with inner ventroapical spiniform process, medially directed. Paraphyses with V-shaped basal plate and apical pair of long and moderately narrow rami. Aedeagal shaft with pair of basilateral hook-shaped processes, posteriorly directed, and pair of similar processes on basiventral portion, anteriorly directed. Female sternite VII with conspicuous central black macula; posterior margin with median, deep trapezoidal emargination. Sternite VIII with semilunar sclerotized plate slightly produced anteromedially.
Female length. 8.5 mm (n = 1).
Description of female genitalia. Sternite VII moderately produced posteriorly; apical portion gradually narrowed; posterior margin with median, deep trapezoidal emargination. Sternite VIII, in dorsal view, with semilunar sclerotized plate; anteromedian margin of plate slightly produced. Pygofer moderately produced posteriorly; apex convex in lateral view; some macrosetae distributed on apical half of ventral portion and on subapical portion. Valvula I, in ventral view, with short and narrow process on basilateral margin, basal margin truncate; blade, in lateral view, elongate and narrow, apical half slightly broad, apex acute; dorsal sculptured area extending along almost entire length of blade; processes linear, forming approximately parallel rows, oblique to blade axis; ventral sculptured area on subapical and apical portions; processes scale-like, distally arranged in approximately parallel and oblique rows. Valvula II, in lateral view, moderately broad beyond basal curvature, gradually narrowing towards acute apex; blade with about 20 teeth distributed from beginning of expanded portion to apex, closer to one another distally; teeth, on median portion, trapezoidal and moderately prominent, about 1.5 times longer than high, spaced from one another about twice tooth length; preapical prominence distinct, approximately aligned to anteapical tooth; denticles distributed on all dorsal margin of shaft and from preapical prominence to apex on ventral margin.
Material examined. Dominican Republic: Pedernales, one male and one female (holotype and paratype, respectively) (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 pages 111-112, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1035586