Macropsis hippodameia Linnavuori, 1978

Tishechkin, Dmitri Yu., 2019, Macropsini (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) from the vicinity of Ambo, Ethiopia, Zootaxa 4664 (3), pp. 365-376 : 369-370

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.3.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3797861

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scientific name

Macropsis hippodameia Linnavuori, 1978
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5. Macropsis hippodameia Linnavuori, 1978 View in CoL

Figs. 16–22 View FIGURES 1–22 , 63–67 View FIGURES 41–81 , 82–94 View FIGURES 82–117

Material examined. Ethiopia, Ambo , 7. V. – 28. VII. 1990, A.F. Emelyanov, 2 ♂, 3 ♀, of which 2 ♂ and 1 ♀ were dissected .

Description. Species identification is based on Linnavuori (1978).

Two studied males differ from each other in coloration, although similar in shape of genitalia and 2 nd abdominal apodemes. Dark coloured male greyish yellow with strongly developed dark pattern ( Figs. 16–18 View FIGURES 1–22 ). Head pale yellow with two round black spots on crown, two black transverse stripes, both interrupted in middle, and blurry brown spots on frons. Pronotum greyish yellow with two large dark spots on fore margin behind eyes, mesonotum brown with yellow lateral margins and back third and with black tip. Proepimeron with black spot. Forewing semitransparent with brown speckles; tip of clavus, ends of claval veins, and some veins in apical half of wing (mostly, transverse ones) darkened.

Light coloured male entirely yellowish green with two small black spots on crown, almost invisible black spot on proepimeron and few speckles on forewing ( Figs. 19–21 View FIGURES 1–22 ).

Female entirely yellowish green with more or less developed speckled pattern on forewing with the exception of clavus and with whitish median stripe on mesonotum; in the female with most strongly developed pattern on forewing the very tip of mesonotum black ( Fig. 22 View FIGURES 1–22 ).

Apex of crown and anterior margin of pronotum rounded ( Figs. 18, 20 View FIGURES 1–22 ). Median keel weakly developed, in males hardly distinguishable only on mesonotum, in females distinct on mesonotum and in upper half of face.

Abdominal apodemes of 2 nd tergite in male with rather short angular lobes separated by wide round notch ( Figs. 82–83 View FIGURES 82–117 ); sternal apodemes with narrow tips sometimes slightly bent inwards, separated by wide more or less round notch ( Figs. 84–85 View FIGURES 82–117 ). Penis in side view slender, evenly tapering apically ( Figs. 86–87 View FIGURES 82–117 ). Style tip pointed or somewhat expanded ( Figs. 88–89 View FIGURES 82–117 ). Pygofer lobes in back parts thin, semi-transparent in macerated preparations, but with strongly sclerotized ribs along back margins ( Fig. 90 View FIGURES 82–117 ). Pygofer processes in back view parallel, somewhat sinuate ( Fig. 90 View FIGURES 82–117 ), in side view slightly bent forward ( Figs. 91–92 View FIGURES 82–117 ). 2 nd valvulae of ovipositor with 2–3 preapical teeth ( Fig. 93 View FIGURES 82–117 ). Female 7 th sternite of usual shape, triangular, with small shallow notch on hind margin ( Fig. 94 View FIGURES 82–117 ).

Body length (including tegmina): ♂, 4.0–4.1 mm; ♀, 4.4–4.6 mm.

Host. Acacia sp. or from unidentified shrubs.

Remark. In the shape of genitalia fits the description of Linnavuori (1978) ( Figs. 63–67 View FIGURES 41–81 ). Dark coloured male ( Figs. 16–18 View FIGURES 1–22 ) in external appearance is similar to M. bitaeniata Linnavuori, 1978 known by the only male from Yemen, but differs from it by somewhat more narrow penis and narrower style tip ( Figs. 80–81 View FIGURES 41–81 and 86–89 View FIGURES 82–117 ). Possibly, M. bitaeniata and M. hippodameia are conspecific, but more material is needed for elucidation their taxonomic status.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Macropsis

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