Agonoscena cisti

Adult. Body yellowish with dorsal sclerites of head, thorax, abdomen and wing pads dark brown. Head and thorax ochreous with white spots: two adjoining at coronal suture, one near each lateral ocellus, one at base of pronotum, two on mesopraescutum, four on mesoscutellum, two on metascutellum. Antenna yellow with light brown scape and pedicel, apices of segments 4 and 8 and entire segments 6, 9 and 10 dark brown or almost black; segment 10 with one terminal seta 1.2 times as long as segment and one 1.6 times as long as segment. Forewings transparent with brown cloudy pattern consisting of a double zig-zag line along outer wing-margin and around apex of vein Cu1b, and dark brown spots on veins; surface spinules forming cellular pattern, present in all cells and reaching veins. Hindwings transparent with brown pattern on apical part of anal and costal area. Metatibia 0.8 times as long as head width, with an open crown of 10–12 sclerotized stout spurs apically. Abdomen dark brown in mature specimens, ochreous with more-or-less expanded brown pattern in teneral specimens. Male proctiger cylindrical, 0.4–0.5 times as long as head width, anterior margin convex, covered with long setae in apical two thirds. Female proctiger 0.7–0.8 times as long as head width, with dorsal margin weakly sinuate and a median hump in apical third, narrowly rounded apically, bearing short setae ventroapically, moderately long setae in apical two thirds and a few long setae near dorsal margin. Subgenital plate subglobular in male, subtriangular in female.

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