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
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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.