Macrosteles quadrimaculatus (Matsumura, 1900)

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 : 374

Macrosteles quadrimaculatus (Matsumura, 1900)

(Plate 9, figs. 11–19)

Cicadula quadrimaculata Matsumura, 1900: 398 ; Metcalf, 1967: 2551

Cicadula masatonis Matsumura, 1902: 362 ; Kuoh, 1966: 141; Metcalf, 1967: 2552

Cicadula ishidae Matsumura, 1910: 125 ; Metcalf, 1967: 2552

Macrosteles masatonis, Ishihara, 1953: 37

Macrosteles romanovi Razvjakina, 1957 . synonymized by Nast 1972: 339 – 340

Macrosteles quadrimaculatus, Esaki & Ito, 1954: 3 ; Anufriev & Emeljanov, 1988: 186, Figs. 18 – 21; Li & Wang, 1991: 182, Fig. 90

Length (including tergmen). Male, 3.0– 3.7 mm; female, 3.4–4.0 mm (Kwon 1988).

Pale yellow, head with 2 pairs of black spots.

Male abdomen. 2nd acrotergite with trunk horizontal; neck slender, about as long as trunk width. 2nd tergal apodeme generally exceeding middle of tergite posteriorly. 1st sternal apodeme with posterior lobes as long as wide. 2nd sternal apodeme with posterior lobes about as long as basal width.

Male genitalia. Pygofer without caudo-ventral tubercle. Aedeagal shaft smooth, curved dorsad, with lateral protuberance subapically.

Material examined. CHINA: 5 males, 23 females, Zhejiang Prov., Mt. Fengyang, 8.viii.2003, Coll. Dai Wu (trapped); 1 male, Anhui Prov., Guzhongjiang County, 11.viii.2007, Coll. Peng Lingfei; 12 males, 4 females, Fujian Prov., Guangze County, 23.viii.2002, Coll. Yuan Zhonglin; 5 males, 10 females, Jiangxi Prov., Mt. Jingang, 3~ 9.viii. 2004, 650m, Coll. Wei Cong & Yang Meixia; 1 male, 5 females, Shandong Prov., Yantai City, Mt. Kunyu, 12.vii.2001, 1500m, Coll. Qin Daozheng & Liu Zhenjiang; 1 male, Henan Prov., Xixia County, 17.vii.1998, 1300m, Coll. Hu Jian; 1 male, Hubei Prov., Tongshan County, Hengshi Township, 8.viii.2001, Coll. Huang Min (trapped); 6 males, 3 females, Hunan Prov., Mt. Heng, 7.viii.1985, Coll. Zhang Yalin & Chai Yonghui; 1 male, Guangdong Prov., Mt. Dinghu, 17.vii.1985, Coll. Zhang Yalin; 3 males, 4 females, Shaanxi Prov., Huoditang County, 17.viii.1984, Coll. Zhang Yalin (NWAFU).

Distribution. Russia ( Kirghizia, Maritime Territory), Japan, Korea, (Kwon 1988) and China (Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Gansu, Taiwan).