Macrosteles laevis Ribaut 1927

• Main Authors: Yalin, Zhang, Lin, Lu, Kwon, Yong Jung
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hemiptera; Cicadellidae; Macrosteles; Macrosteles laevis; Canada; Green Head; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6151857; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6151857

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. 2 nd acrotergite with trunk V-shaped; neck short. 2 nd tergal apodeme with posterior lobes apparently extending beyond posterior margin of tergite. 1 st sternal apodeme with posterior lobes as long as wide. 2 nd 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