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Issue: Vol. 4338 No. 1: 24 Oct. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-10-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.5
Page range: 101–127
Abstract views: 74
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The sharpshooter genus Apogonalia Evans (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini): description of females and key to species

Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Av. Brasil 4365, 21040-360 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha Cicadellinae female genitalia leafhopper morphology taxonomy

Abstract

The Cicadellinae genus Apogonalia Evans, 1947 currently has 22 species and occurs from Arizona (USA) to Panama and the Antilles. Color pattern and female genital structures of 21 species of Apogonalia are here described and illustrated (the female of A. nielsoni Felix & Mejdalani, 2006 is unknown). Comparative morphological notes are included. The female of A. angusta Freytag, 2004 is described for the first time. A key to males and females of all known species of the genus is provided.

 

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