Review of the genus Taurotettix Haupt, 1929 (Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Cicadulini): morphology, acoustic signals, and geographical variability Author Tishechkin, Dmitri Yu. text Zootaxa 2021 2021-12-16 5082 2 191 199 journal article 2922 10.11646/zootaxa.5082.2.9 8a655767-e325-4238-99b1-542ea34bdfce 1175-5326 5785435 EBE506B1-46E5-47BC-B64C-6916A2F4E534 Taurotettix ( Callistrophia ) elegans subornata ( Mityaev, 1971 ) stat. nov. Figs. 12–15 , 34–39 Callistrophia subornata Mityaev, 1971: 156 . Description. Coloration as in C. elegans elegans , but usually paler; longitudinal stripes on forewings lighter, in specimens from Kazakhstan sometimes almost invisible ( Figs. 12–15 ). Similar to nominotypical subspecies in genitalia shape, but differs in somewhat smaller apical lobe of aedeagus ( Figs. 34, 36, 38 ) and asymmetrically expanded and truncate style apophysis ( Figs. 35, 37, 39 ). Body length (including tegmina): ♂ , 5.0–5.5 mm; ♀ , 5.6–6.2 mm. Hosts. In steppes and deserts, usually dwells on riverbanks and in wet hollows, often on saline soils.Was collected in a meadow with Elytrigia sp. , Bromus inermis , and Stipa sp. (Poaceae) and from Carex sp. and Bolboschoenus sp. (Cyperaceae) in Eastern Kazakhstan and from Elymus sp. and other grasses under the canopy of a forest on the riverbank in Central Tien Shan. Calling signal. Unknown. Distribution. Southern and Eastern Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan (North and Central Tien Shan Mts.). Remarks. Originally described from Kazakhstan in a key ( Mityaev, 1971 ) as a valid species, this taxon only slightly differs from T. ( C. ) elegans in genitalia shape. Because these differences are obviously of a geographic nature, we consider this taxon to be a subspecies. Recorded from Kyrgyzstan , Central Tien Shan Mts. (Ottuk, At-Bashy, and Aktal) by Dubovsky and Turgunov (1971) as “ Callistrophia sp. n. ”, but a formal description was never published elsewhere by these authors.Investigated material from Central Tien Shan belongs to T. ( C. ) elegans subornata ( Figs. 12–13 , 34–35 ).