Macrosteles spinosus Kwon

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 : 375-376

Macrosteles spinosus Kwon , sp. nov.

(Plate 5, figs. 11–22)

Length (including tegmen). Male: 3.2–3.4 mm; female: 3.6–3.8 mm.

General coloration yellow to yellowish green, with forewings lacking any prominent dark marking. Head with anterior and posterior spots prominently isolated; median and lateral spots confluent, or isolated. Frontoclypeus with black transverse bands usually prominent.

Male abdomen. 2nd acrotergite with trunk usually horizontal; neck thin, shorter than half of trunk width. 2nd tergal apodeme extending 1/2 of tergite posteriorly. 1st sternal apodeme with posterior lobes over 1.5 times as long as wide. 2nd sternal apodeme with posterior lobes elongate, about 2.0 times as long as basal width.

Male genitalia. Aedeagus with shaft straight, serrate margin ventrally and laterally, some small teeth on basal and middle of shaft in lateral view; lateral flanges apparently lacking; apical appendages convergent, or crossed apically.

Holotype: male, Turkey, Anatolia, Nigole, Uluskisla, 9.vii.1980, 1100m, light trapped, Coll. V. Kartal (ONUS). Paratype: 13 males & 11 females, same data as holotype; 13 males & 14 females, Anatolia, Konya, Eregli, 5 km W., 12.viii.1980, 1100m, Coll. V. Kartal (ONUS); 1 male, Anatolia, Antalya, Manavgat, 2.iv.1962, Coll. Giuchard & Harvey (BMNH); 1 male, Anatolia, Ankara, Ravli, 30.iv.1962, 1000m, Coll. Giuchard & Harvey (BMNH); 2 males, Anatolia, Ankara, Karagöl, 9.vii.1968, Coll. A.Kalkandelen (ARIA); 12 males, 10 females, Anatolia, Ankara, Eguir Golu, 29.viii.1978, Coll. A.Kalkandelen (ARIA); 14 males, 15 females, Antolia, Van Alpaslan, ilk öğ. ok., Coll. 15.vii.1970, Coll. A.Kalkandelen (ARIA); 15 males, 16 females, Antolia, Duzce- Cavuslar, Celtik, 9.viii.1983, Coll. A.Kalkandelen (ARIA); 1 male, France, Banyuls (P.O.), 9.vii.1932, Ribaut, labeled as “ Cicadula fieberi Edw., Ribaut det. 1938” (NCSU); 7 males, 1 female, USSR, Astrakhan District, 20.viii.1963, G.A. Anufriev (CNCI); 1 male, Bulgaria, Varvara, viii.1970, Coll. M. Kocourek (BMNH); 1 male, New Zealand, Mt. Cook Nat. Park, Mout Sebastopol, 7.ii.1972, 3800m, R.A.F.M.A. Mt. Cook Exp., Coll. W.J. Knight & P.S. Broomfield (BMNH); 16 males, 14 females, CHINA, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Fukang County, 11.ix.1986, Coll. Zhang Yalin same data as holotype; Xinjiang Autonomous Region, 1 male, Ta City, vii.1979, Coll. Institution of Talimu Agriculture; 2 males, Kashi City, 25.vii.1981, Coll. Liu; 1 male, 1 female, Changji County, 7–12.xi.1986, Coll. Zhang Yalin (NWAFU).

Distribution. France, Bulgaria, Turkey, Astrakhan district of Russia, China and New Zealand, the last of which may represent an introduction from Europe (Knight 1975).

Remarks. This species has been confused with M. fieberi , from with it may be separated by the lack of lateral flanges and presence of teeth ventrally; with the 2nd acrotergite trunk horizontal; 1st sternal apodeme with posterior lobes longer and much shorter posterior lobes of 2nd sternal apodeme in the male.

Etymology. The specific epithet “ spinosus ” is derived from the shaft of the aedeagus with heavily spines.