Macrosteles abludens 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 : 365-366

Macrosteles abludens Anufriev, 1968 , new record

(Plate 12, figs. 1–9)

Macrosteles abludens Anufriev, 1968: 560 , Figs. 9–15; Anufriev & Emeljanov, 1988: 187, Figs. 15–21

Length (including tegmen). Male: 2.8–3.8 mm; female: 2.8–4.0 mm. General coloration yellow to yellowish green. Head with 3 pairs of black transverse marks. Forewing with faint smoky tint on apex.

Male abdomen. 1st tergite strikingly elongate; 2nd acrotergite with trunk widely V-shaped, neck longer than half of trunk width. 2nd tergal apodeme reaching posterior margin of tergite. 1st sternal apodeme with anterior lobes welldeveloped; posterior lobes apparently longer than wide. 2nd sternal apodeme with posterior lobes broad, about as long as basal width.

Male genitalia. Pygofer broad, with indistinct spinulose tubercle on caudo-ventral margin; aedeagal shaft in lateral view evenly curved, smooth ventrally and dorsally; apical appendages slender, curved dorsally and bent caudo-ventrally, longer than 2/3 length of shaft, twisted.

Material examined. CHINA: 1 male, 4 females, Zhejiang Prov., Mt. Wuyanling, 29.vii. 2006, 700m, Coll. Duan Yani; 5 males, 9 females, Fujian Prov., Mt. Wuyi, 20.viii.2002, Coll. Sun Qinxia (trapped); 3 males, 5 females, Hunan Prov., Mt. Heng, 8.viii.1985, Coll. Zhang Yalin & Chai Yonghui; 1 male, 1 female, Shaanxi Prov., Huanglong County, 13.vi.1980 (NWUAF).

Distribution. Thailand and Vietnam north to Maritime Territory of Russia (Kwon 1988) and China (Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Shaanxi).

Remarks. This species resembles M. albicostalis and M. striifrons in the characters of the aedeagus, but differs from the latter in having the aedeagal shaft smooth, the apical aedeagal appendages longer than half length of the shaft and twisted, and the 1st sternal apodeme with anterior lobes developed and posterior lobes longer than wide.