Apogonalia blanchardi (Signoret, 1855)

(Figs 6–15)

Diagnosis. Anterior dorsum (Fig. 6) yellow with dark brown marks and broad, median yellow stripe bordered by dark brown; yellow median stripe with irregular, elongate dark brown marks. Pronotum with four vivid yellow maculae usually distinct on disc, one mediolateral pair and one lateral pair. Forewing reddish-brown (Fig. 6) with numerous yellow maculae on basal portion; apex dark. Face (Fig. 7) yellow with dark brown marks. Frons with longitudinal dark brown stripes; median portion with inverted V-shaped dark mark; pair of elongate V-shaped mediolateral dark marks. Clypeus orange with median dark brown stripe. Male pygofer with inner ventroapical acute process. Aedeagus with pair of ventral acute processes anteriorly curved. Paraphyses with Y-shaped basal sclerite and pair of long and narrow rami, strongly expanded subapically, apex acute; right ramus apical, left ramus subapical. Female sternite VII (Fig. 8) with posterior margin narrowly convex. Sternite VIII (Fig. 9) with large, semilunar sclerotized plate.

Female length. 11.6–11.8 mm (n = 2).

Description of female genitalia. Sternite VII (Fig. 8) moderately produced posteriorly; apical portion abruptly narrow; posterior margin narrowly convex, with median concavity bearing minute lateral processes. Sternite VIII (Fig. 9), in dorsal view, with semilunar sclerotized plate, irregularly emarginate on anteromedian portion. Pygofer (Fig. 10) moderately produced posteriorly; posterior margin narrowly convex in lateral view; disc with long macrosetae on posterodorsal portion and apical 3/4 of posteroventral portion. Valvula I, in ventral view (Fig. 11), with basal portion narrow and anteriorly produced; basal margin slightly concave; blade similar to that of A. angusta; apical portion (Fig. 12) acute in lateral view. Valvula II (Figs 13–15) similar to that of A. angusta; preapical prominence approximately aligned to apical tooth (Fig. 14).

Material examined. Mexico: San Luis Potosí, one male and one female (USNM); Veracruz-Llave, two males (USNM) . Nicaragua: Boaco, one female (USNM) .