Review of the genus Macropsis Lewis, 1836 (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae: Macropsini) of Southeastern Kazakhstan with description of new species
Author
Tishechkin, Dmitri Yu.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-08-27
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4838.3.4
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18.
Macropsis pictipes
(Horvath, 1904)
Fig. 43
Macropsis grossa
Dubovskiy, 1966: 100–101
(synonymy by
Tishechkin, 1994
).
Description.
Pale yellow with strongly developed dark pattern on head, pro-, and mesonotum (
Fig. 43
). Forewings transparent with two dark spots or stripes at level of transverse vein of clavus and in basal part of subapical cells; in light specimens these spots reduced. Basal part of claval veins white, all other veins dark.
One of the largest
Macropsis
species, body length (including tegmina):
♂
,
4.3–4.5 mm
;
♀
, 5.0–
5.5 mm
.
Host.
Hippophae rhamnoides
.
Distribution.
Eastern half of North Caucasus, mountains of Southern
Kazakhstan
and Central Asia, South Siberia eastwards to Tyva,
Mongolia
. In Southeastern
Kazakhstan
was found only on Dzhungarsky Alatau Range.
Remark.
Identification of this species is based on investigation of the
holotype
deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Budapest).