Igerna fasciata (Osborn), 2011

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 67-69

Igerna fasciata (Osborn) comb. nov.

Figs 317–320.

Agalliopsis fasciata Osborn 1934: 164 , fig. 1. HOLOTYPE ♀, SAMOA IS. [BMNH, examined].

Color. Ochraceous with dark brown patches. Median half of vertex chocolate brown (result of fusion of two round lateral spots, median stripe, their shape more clearly visible in facial view). Face yellow, shining, lower portion of clypellus medially reddish brown. Pronotum yellowish brown with conical large chocolate brown patch reaching both anterior and posterior margins, median stripe not reaching anterior margin, yellow. Scutellum in anterior half brown, basal triangles darker, posterior half yellow. Forewings chocolate brown, with broad costal stripe, claval suture and claval veins, yellow.

Morphology. Face flattish, transverse clypeal suture absent. Ocelli closer to each other than to eye.

Male genitalia. Caudal lobe of pygofer rounded and produced into darkly pigmented mesal lobe. Styles stout, long, inner arm slender, longer than outer arm, dorsal angle prolonged. Connective as long as wide, anteriorly produced in middle, caudal margin medially excavated. Aedeagus in lateral view V-shaped, dorsal apodeme well developed, closely oppressed to shaft, shaft slightly curved at apical 0.33 bearing subapical tooth on right lateral margin, apically terminated by two short processes, gonopore subapical.

Female genitalia. Hind margin of female seventh sternite straight.

Measurement. Male 4.9 mm long, 1.6 mm wide across eyes. Female 5.44 mm long, 1.68 mm wide across head.

Material examined. SAMOA: HOLOTYPE ♀, “Type” “Samoan Is.” “Malololeleci” “Upolu 2000ft, 14– 30.vi.24, P.A. Burton and G.H. Hopkins [red label]” “ Holotype Agalliopsis fasciatus Osborn ” ( BMNH) . Additional material: 1 ♂, Upolu: Afiamalu, 3.vi.1940, O.H. Swezey, Agalliopsis fasciatus Osborn, O.H. Swezey det. ( BPBM) .

Remarks. I. fasciata resembles Agallia hilaris Horváth from Canary Islands ( Horváth 1909, Lindberg 1954) but differs in the coloration, position of the ocelli and the structure of the male genitalia.