Macrosteles laevis Ribaut 1927 ...

• Main Authors: Yalin, Zhang, Lin, Lu, Kwon, Yong Jung
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hemiptera; Cicadellidae; Macrosteles; Macrosteles laevis; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6151856; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6151856

Macrosteles laevis (Ribaut, 1927) (Plate 2, figs. 8–16) Length (including tegmen). Male: 3.0– 3.2 mm; female: 3.3–3.6 mm. Yellowish green; head with 3 pairs of black spots, not merged; a short black longitudinal band between ocelli and eyes. Forewings transparent. Male abdomen. 2nd acrotergite with trunk V-shaped; neck short. 2nd tergal apodeme with posterior lobes apparently extending beyond posterior margin of tergite. 1st sternal apodeme with posterior lobes as long as wide. 2nd sternal apodeme with posterior lobes slightly extending twice as long as basal width. Male genitalia. Aedeagus with shaft smooth; aedeagal appendages gently curved anteriorly, long, about 2/3 of shaft length. Material examined. CHINA: 12 males, 15 females, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Fukang County, 11.vi.1986, Coll. Zhang Yalin (NWAFU). Distribution. Holarctic, from Europe to Kamchatka and western Canada (Kwon 1988), and northern China (Xinjiang). ... : Published as part of Yalin, Zhang, Lin, Lu & Kwon, Yong Jung, 2013, Review of the Leafhopper Genus Macrosteles Fieber (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, pp. 361-392 in Zootaxa 3700 (3) on pages 371-372, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3700.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/248993 ...