Macrosteles albicostalis Vilbaste, 1968

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 : 366

Macrosteles albicostalis Vilbaste, 1968 , new record

(Plate 12, figs. 10–18)

Macrosteles albicostalis Vilbaste, 1968: 151 –153; Nast, 1972: 336; Anufriev, 1978: 131; Lee, 1979: 494, Figs. 1–6; Anufriev & Emeljanov, 1988: 186, Figs. 1–6

Length (including tegmen). Male: 3.8–4.3 mm; female: 4.4 mm.

Greenish yellow. Head with 2 pairs of black marks.

Male abdomen. 1st tergite moderately broad. 2nd acrotergite with trunk widely V-shaped, apical processes welldeveloped; neck about half as long as trunk width. 2nd tergal apodeme with posterior lobes reaching near middle of tergite posteriorly; median projection reaching posterior margin. 1st sternal apodeme round with posterior lobes about as long as wide. 2nd sternal apodeme with posterior lobes twice as long as basal width.

Male genitalia. Pygofer broad, with indistinct spinulose tubercle on caudo-ventral margin; aedeagal shaft in lateral view abruptly bent dorsad near midlength, with teeth ventro-basally, often with several teeth present dorsally; apical appendages slender, curved dorsally and bent caudo-ventrally, longer than half length of shaft.

Material examined. CHINA: 1 male, Jiangxi Prov., Nanchang City, Mt. Mei, 30.vi.2003, Coll. Lin Yujian (JXFPI); 1 male, Guangxi Autonomous Region, Dalu County, 3.ix.2000, Coll. Liu Zhenjiang; 2 males, Guizhou Prov., Mt. Fanjing, River Heluan, 27–28.vii. 2001, 600m, Coll. Sun Qiang (trapped).

Distribution. Eastern Siberia south to Korea (Kwon 1988) and China (Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guizhou).