Acrogonia virescens (Dellapé, Gimena 2015)
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Ordo: Hemiptera
Familia: Cicadellidae
Genus: Acrogonia
Name
Acrogonia virescens Metcalf 1949 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Acrogonia virescens Dellapé, Gimena, 2015, Zootaxa 3915: 522-523.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis. General coloration greenish, with dark V-shaped spot at apex of crown; clypellus with dark spot of variable shape and size. Male: connective Y-shaped; styles elongated and curved toward the midline; aedeagus long and thin, apex sharp, and basal portion Y-shaped.
Description
Female terminalia. Abdominal sternite VII, in ventral view (Fig. 2), with lateral margins slightly parallel, lateroposterior margins broadly rounded, and posterior margin deeply emarginate bearing conspicuous median lobe inside emargination; with a few macrosetae at edges of emargination. Pygofer, in lateral view, slightly produced posteriorly; surface with scattered microsetae and macrosetae on posterior one-third of disc. First valvifers, in lateral view, longer than tall; with small spiniform processes in posterior one-third. First ovipositor valvulae, in lateral view, short and slightly rectilinear, basal portion expanded; dorsal sculptured area formed by scale-like processes arranged in oblique lines; ventral sculptured area formed by scale-like processes arranged irregularly; apex truncate with acute median projection (Fig. 22). Second valvulae, in lateral view, short and slightly rectilinear; dorsal margin of blade bearing 18 to 20 noncontiguous teeth, each tooth subtriangular, declivous posteriorly, with denticles along entire dorsal margin (Fig. 42); size of teeth increases from proximal portion to middle region, and then decreases towards apex, ducts extending toward teeth and toward apical blade portion; apex obtuse, forming a concavity with preapical ventral prominence (Fig. 62). Gonoplacs, in lateral view, with basal half narrow, and apical half short and distinctly expanded; apex acute.
Materials Examined
Material examined. ARGENTINA. Salta: Abra Grande, Orán, 2 ♂1 ♀, III/ 1967; 3 ♂1 ♀, 10 /I- 28 /II/ 1967, R. Golbach (IMLA). Misiones: Puerto Iguazú, 25 ° 37´19 ´´S54 ° 32´52 ´´W, 1 ♀, 7 /I/ 2008, hand collection, C.H. Dietrich (INHS); Eldorado, 1 ♂2 ♀, 31 /X/ 2008, Logarzo & Palottini; Parque Nacional Iguazú, 2 ♂, 11 /XII/ 2008, water trap, Zamudio & Colleselli Gomez de Olivera; Eldorado, Cueva Miní, 26 ° 22,29´S54 ° 39,65´W, 5 ♂, 14 /II/ 2012, hand collection, G. Dellapé (MLP).
Distribution
Distribution.Guyana, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay (Young 1968) and Argentina: Misiones and Salta (Paradell et al.2012).
Taxon Treatment
- Dellapé, Gimena; 2015: Description of the female terminalia of twenty species of Proconiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Argentina, Zootaxa 3915: 522-523. doi
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