Macrosteles striifrons Anufriev, 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 : 376

Macrosteles striifrons Anufriev, 1968

(Plate 13, figs. 19–28)

Macrosteles striifrons Anufriev 1968: 559 –561, Figs. 1 – 8

Macrosteles orientalis Vilbaste, 1968: 560 , Figs. 1 – 8, synonymized by Anufriev, 1978

Macrosteles striifrons, Anufriev, 1978: 129 ; Lee, 1979: 486, Figs. 1 – 8; Anufriev & Emeljanov, 1988: 187, Figs. 7 – 14; Wilson & Claridge, 1991: 103

Macrosteles serratus Dai, Li & Xing, 2011: 289 , Figs. 1–10, syn. nov., junior homonym of M. serratus Kwon (in Hamilton and Kwon 2010a)

Length (including tegmen). Male: 2.8–3.5 mm; female: 3.2–4.0 mm.

Yellow, vertex with pair of black spots medially, with 2 pairs of transverse stria on anterior margin, twisted.

Male abdomen. 2nd acrotergite with trunk small and V-shaped. 2nd tergal apodeme developed, with posterior lobes enlarged, extending to posterior margin of tergite. 1st sternal apodeme with anterior lobes prominently developed, slightly shorter than wide; posterior lobes slightly shorter than basal width. 2nd sternal apodeme with posterior lobes rather large, about 1.5 times as long as basal width.

Male genitalia. Aedeagal shaft smooth, sometimes with several teeth dorsally and basal ventrally, apical appendages curved caudo-ventrally close to shaft basally, crossed.

Material examined. CHINA: 1 male, 2 females, Heilongjiang Prov., Mt. Mi, Peide County, 2.ix. 2001, 100m, Coll. Sun Qiang; 6 male, 24 females, Zhejiang Prov., Mt. Fengyang, 12.viii.2008, 1120m, Coll. Xiao Bin; 3 males, 9 females, Fujian Prov., Mt. Wuyi, 20.viii.2002, Coll. Sun Qinxia (trapped); 1 male, 3 females, Jiangxi Prov., Lianhua County, 4.viii.2002, Coll. Yuan Zhonglin; 1 female, Shandong Prov., Mt. Kunyu, 12.vii.2001, Coll. Qin Daozheng & Liu Zhenjiang; 1 male, 7 females, Henan Prov., Mt. Jigong, 11.vii.1997, Coll. Yuan Zhonglin; 3 males, Hubei Prov., Tongshan County, Hengshi Township, 8.viii.2001, Coll. Huang Min; 37 males, 12 females, Hunan Prov., Changde City, 22.vii.2002, Coll. Yuan Zhonglin & Sun Qinxia; 5 males, 2 females, Guangdong Prov., Zhaoqing City, Mt. Dinghu, 20.vi.1983, Coll. Zhang Yalin (trapped); 5 females, Guangxi Autonomous Region, Mt. Dayao, 8.ix.2000, Coll. Liu Zhenjiang; 3 males, 23 females, Hainan Prov., Xinglong County, 23~ 27.iv.1983, Coll. Zhang Yalin; 1 male, 1 female, Sichuan Prov., Huanglong County, 13.vi.1980, Coll. Ma Ning; 5 females, Guizhou Prov., Mt. Fanjing, Heihewan Township, 27~ 28.vii.2001, Coll. Sun Qiang; 8 males, 5 females, Yunnan Prov., Lijiang County, 15.viii.1979, 2700m, Coll. Wang Longshan & Zheng Leyi (NKU); 1 male, Xizang Autonomous Region, Tanggong County, 2300m, 13.vi.1978, Coll. Li Fasheng (CAU); 4 males, 6 females, Shaanxi Prov., Hanzhong City, 26.ix.1980, Coll. Liu Shaoyou; 2 females, Gansu Prov., Kang County, Mt. Baiyun, 29.vii.2002, Coll. Wei Cong & Yang Zhaofu (trapped); 2 males, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Qinghe County, 5.viii.2006, Coll. Dai Wu & Kang Juxia (all NWAFU except where indicated).

Distribution. China (Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Xizang, Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang, Taiwan, Hong Kong), Java, Philippines, East & Central Asia. This species ranges farther south than any other Oriental species of Macrosteles .

Remarks. Macrosteles serrata Dai et al. 2011 (a junior homonym of M. serratus Hamilton & Kwon 2010 a, see above) is treated as a junior synonym of M. striifrons based on the presence of teeth on the shaft of the aedeagus dorsally.