Egidemia speculifera (Walker 1851)

Dellapé, Gimena, 2015, Description of the female terminalia of twenty species of Proconiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Argentina, Zootaxa 3915 (4), pp. 521-539 : 524-525

Egidemia speculifera (Walker 1851)

Diagnosis. General coloration brownish, with yellow maculae on crown, pronotum and scutellum; in lateral view, lateral portion of clypeus, genae and pleurae pale yellow; forewings subhyaline with fuzzy reddish spot on costal margin close to anteapical cells. Male: pygofer with unbranched processes; aedeagus in lateral view, narrowest in apical half of its length, without processes [Note. There is a mistake in the numbers of Egidemia figures in Young’s (1968) work. The aedeagus of E. speculifera is actually Figure 169f. This mistake was also noted by Mejdalani & García (2011)].

Female terminalia. Abdominal sternite VII, in ventral view ( Fig. 6 ), with lateral margins parallel, lateroposterior margins strongly convergent posteriorly, and posterior margin emarginate medially; surface with numerous scattered microsetae. Pygofer, in lateral view, moderately produced posteriorly; surface with scattered microsetae and macrosetae on posterior two-thirds of disc. First valvifers, in lateral view, ovoid-shaped, with small spiniform processes on anterior region, and fine setae on posterior margin. First ovipositor valvulae, in lateral view, rectilinear; dorsal and ventral sculptured areas formed by scale-like processes arranged in oblique lines; apex acute ( Fig. 26 ), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margin. Second valvulae, in lateral view, slightly convex beyond basal curvature; dorsal margin of blade bearing 30 to 31 noncontiguous teeth, larger in proximal portion and smaller teeth in distal portion of blade; each tooth triangular, with denticles on posterior margin ( Fig. 46 ); ducts extending toward teeth and toward apical blade portion; apex obtuse ( Fig. 66 ), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins; preapical ventral prominence conspicuous. Gonoplacs, in lateral view, with basal half narrow and arcuate, and apical half distinctly expanded; apex rounded.

Material examined. ARGENTINA. Misiones: El Soberbio, 1♂ 3♀, X/1947, M.J. Viana ( MACN); San Pedro, 1♀, 16/XI/1973, Escobar & Claps; Dos de Mayo, 1♀, 18/XI/1973, Escobar & Claps ( IMLA). Distribution. Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina ( Young 1968): Misiones ( Paradell et al. 2012).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 20. Abdominal sternite VII (ventral view): 1 — Acrogonia citrina, 2 — Acrogonia virescens, 3 — Anacuerna centrolinea, 4 — Dechacona missionum, 5 — Diestostemma ptolyca, 6 — Egidemia speculifera, 7 — Homalodisca ignorata, 8 — Molomea cincta, 9 — Molomea confluens, 10 — Molomea consolida, 11 — Molomea lineiceps, 12 — Oncometopia expansa, 13 — Oncometopia facialis, 14 — Oncometopia tucumana, 15 — Oncometopia venata, 16 — Phera carbonaria, 17 — Tapajosa doeringi, 18 — Tapajosa rubromarginata, 19 — Tapajosa similis, 20 — Teletusa limpida. Scale: 1 mm.

FIGURES 21 – 40. First valvulae of ovipositor, apex (lateral view): 21 — Acrogonia citrina, 22 — Acrogonia virescens, 23 — Anacuerna centrolinea, 24 — Dechacona missionum, 25 — Diestostemma ptolyca, 26 — Egidemia speculifera, 27 — Homalodisca ignorata, 28 — Molomea cincta, 29 — Molomea confluens, 30 — Molomea consolida, 31 — Molomea lineiceps, 32 — Oncometopia expansa, 33 — Oncometopia facialis, 34 — Oncometopia tucumana, 35 — Oncometopia venata, 36 — Phera carbonaria, 37 — Tapajosa doeringi, 38 — Tapajosa rubromarginata, 39 — Tapajosa similis, 40 — Teletusa limpida. Scale: 0,1 mm.

FIGURES 41 – 60. Second valvulae of ovipositor, teeth of dorsal margin (lateral view): 41 — Acrogonia citrina, 42 — Acrogonia virescens, 43 — Anacuerna centrolinea, 44 — Dechacona missionum, 45 — Diestostemma ptolyca, 46 — Egidemia speculifera, 47 — Homalodisca ignorata, 48 — Molomea cincta, 49 — Molomea confluens, 50 — Molomea consolida, 51 — Molomea lineiceps, 52 — Oncometopia expansa, 53 — Oncometopia facialis, 54 — Oncometopia tucumana, 55 — Oncometopia venata, 56 — Phera carbonaria, 57 — Tapajosa doeringi, 58 — Tapajosa rubromarginata, 59 — Tapajosa similis, 60 — Teletusa limpida. Scale: 0,1 mm.

FIGURES 61 – 80. Second valvulae of ovipositor, apex (lateral view): 61 — Acrogonia citrina, 62 — Acrogonia virescens, 63 — Anacuerna centrolinea, 64 — Dechacona missionum, 65 — Diestostemma ptolyca, 66 — Egidemia speculifera, 67 — Homalodisca ignorata, 68 — Molomea cincta, 69 — Molomea confluens, 70 — Molomea consolida, 71 — Molomea lineiceps, 72 — Oncometopia expansa, 73 — Oncometopia facialis, 74 — Oncometopia tucumana, 75 — Oncometopia venata, 76 — Phera carbonaria, 77 — Tapajosa doeringi, 78 — Tapajosa rubromarginata, 79 — Tapajosa similis, 80 — Teletusa limpida. Scale: 0,1 mm.