Review of the Leafhopper Genus Macrosteles Fieber (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China Author Yalin, Zhang Author Lin, Lu Author Kwon, Yong Jung text Zootaxa 2013 3700 3 361 392 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3700.3.3 97c923dd-5fdc-4ce5-8603-2d101dfd1999 1175-5326 248993 28E77AEB-00BD-4046-BE2A-E270FC06773D Macrosteles falcatus Zhang & Lu, sp. nov. (Plate 4, figs. 11–20) Length (including tegmen). Male: 3.2–3.3 mm ; female: 4.0– 4.1 mm . Pale green; head with 3 pair of irregular black spots; pronotum pale yellow with smoky marks, anterior margin with small black spots; scutellum with basal triangle and transverse suture black; forewings smoky, clavus slightly brownish. Vertex with midlength slightly longer than next to eyes and shorter than between eyes. Male genitalia. Pygofer with distinct tubercle on caudo-ventral margin. Subgenital plates with outer margin convex over basal two-thirds. Aedeagus with shaft elongate, weakly curved dorsad, with lateral teeth from near base to near apex, slightly to apex, apical appendages moderately long, evenly curved dorsally, sickle-like, in lateral aspect, divergent. Male 2nd abdominal apodemes extending beyond posterior margin of sternum. Holotype : male, CHINA , Yunnan Prov. , Shangri-La County, 19.vii.2005 , Coll. Lu Lin (NWAFU). Paratypes : 3 males , 4 females , same data as holotype (NWAFU and 1 male BMNH). Distribution. China (Yunnan). Remarks. The species is similar to M. laevis , but can be differentiated from the latter by the shorter apical aedeagal appendages, and longer male 2nd abdominal apodemes. Etymology. The species epithet “ falcatus ” refers to the sickle-shaped aedeagal processes in lateral view.