Macropsis pictipes (Horvath, 1904)

Tishechkin, Dmitri Yu., 2020, Review of the genus Macropsis Lewis, 1836 (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae: Macropsini) of Southeastern Kazakhstan with description of new species, Zootaxa 4838 (3), pp. 381-405 : 395

18. Macropsis pictipes (Horvath, 1904)

Fig. 43

Macropsis grossa Dubovskiy, 1966: 100–101 (synonymy by Tishechkin, 1994).

Description. Pale yellow with strongly developed dark pattern on head, pro-, and mesonotum ( Fig. 43 ). Forewings transparent with two dark spots or stripes at level of transverse vein of clavus and in basal part of subapical cells; in light specimens these spots reduced. Basal part of claval veins white, all other veins dark.

One of the largest Macropsis species, body length (including tegmina): ♂, 4.3–4.5 mm; ♀, 5.0– 5.5 mm.

Host. Hippophae rhamnoides .

Distribution. Eastern half of North Caucasus, mountains of Southern Kazakhstan and Central Asia, South Siberia eastwards to Tyva, Mongolia. In Southeastern Kazakhstan was found only on Dzhungarsky Alatau Range.

Remark. Identification of this species is based on investigation of the holotype deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Budapest).

Figures

FIGURES 29–47. Macropsis spp., lateral view.