Austroagallia fagonica Sawai Singh & Gill

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 28-29

Austroagallia fagonica Sawai Singh & Gill

Figs 45–48, 134–140.

Austroagallia fagonica Sawai Singh & Gill 1973 , In Bindra, 1973: 12–14, pl. 3, figs. 1–11; Viraktamath and Sohi, 1980: 287, figs 17–21. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA [PAU, examined].

Color. Ochraceous with round spot on either side of median line on vertex and posterior half of pronotum, black. Ocelli adjacent area black.

Male genitalia. Pygofer with caudodorsal rounded lobe-like prolongation dorsally. Inner arm of styles as long as outer arm. Aedeagus simple with well developed dorsal apodeme, shaft terminated by two finger-like processes directed in different directions making aedeagus asymmetrical, base of shaft often swollen. Anal collar process hook-like with or without small tooth on dorsal margin.

Female genitalia. Hind margin of seventh sternite almost straight.

Measurements. Male 3.05–3.1 mm long, 0.95–1.00 mm wide across eyes. Female 3.5 mm long, 1.07 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. INDIA: Punjab : HOLOTYPE ♂, Abohar, 22.iv.1968, on Fagonica cretica L. ( PAU) . Paratype: 1 ♂, same data as holotype. Additonal material : INDIA: Delhi, 6 ♂, 9 ♀, IARI Campus, 1968, H.M.Harris; 2 ♂, 9 ♀, 1969, H.M. Harris ( UASB) ; Haryana: 1 ♀, Kalka, 29.i.1979, C.A, Viraktamath ; Jammu & Kashmir: 6 ♂, 14 ♀, Srinagar, 3.x.1981, Dworakowska ( UASB) ; Karnataka: Bangalore 1 ♂, 15.ii.1974, 3 ♂, 8 ♀ ,, 2 nymphs, ex Leucas aspera ; 2 ♂, 17 ♀, 14–17. 1974, ex Medicago sativa ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 6.iii.1975; 1 ♀, 21.i.1976, all collected by C.A. Viraktamath ( UASB) ; Channapatna, 1 ♂, 3 ♀, 15.vii.1977; Dharwad , 1 ♂, 1 ♀, x.1969; 1 ♀, xi.1969, at light; 2 ♂, 17 ♀, ii.1970, at light; 4 ♂, 2 ♀, 20 Km N Kanakapura, 13.vii.1977 all collected by C.A. Viraktamath; 3 ♂, Gadag, 27.ii.1978; 1 ♂, Nandi Hills, 17.vii.1978, S. Viraktamath; Raichur, 2 ♀, 1969, H.M. Harris; Punjab: 2 ♂, Abohar, 22.iv.1962, ex Fagoncia cretica, A.S. Sohi ( UASB) . PAKISTAN: 3 ♀, Karachi, J. Maldonado ; 2 ♂, 8 females, Lahore, x–xi.1957, J. Maldonado ( NMNH) .

Remarks. Specimens from Srinagar are darker and larger. They also have a median stripe on the vertex and pronotum, and a brownish stripe on the inner margin of the eye, the antennal pit has a basal black spot and the forewing veins and cells are infuscated with brown. Males measure 3.6 mm long and 1.15 mm wide across eyes and females 3.80 mm long and 1.2 mm wide across eyes. Male genitalia are similar to those found in the type, but the aedeagal shaft is longer, and more slender in the basal half compared to the typical form, both finger-like processes are directed on one lateral side and the anal collar process lacks a dorsal marginal tooth. These variations are interpreted as intraspecific variation. The typical form of the species has been reared in the laboratory on Leucas aspera (Willd.) (Lamiaceae) at Bangalore.

Austroagallia fagonica , as discussed by Viraktamath and Sohi (1980) resembles the Egyptian species Austroagallia canopus Linnavuori (1969) from which it differs in having a simple anal collar process compared to the branched process found in A. canopus .