Macrosteles falcatus Zhang

Yalin, Zhang, Lin, Lu & Kwon, Yong Jung, 2013, Review of the Leafhopper Genus Macrosteles Fieber (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, Zootaxa 3700 (3), pp. 361-392 : 369

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.