Macrosteles harperatus Zhang

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 : 370-371

Macrosteles harperatus Zhang & Lu, sp. nov.

(Plate 7, figs. 1–11)

Length (including tegmen). Male: 2.4 mm.

Pale tawny; head with pair of irregular black spots; pronotum pale brown, anterior margin black; scutellum dark brown; forewings smoky, clavus brownish, veins yellow. Vertex with medial length distinctly longer than length next to eyes and approximately equal to basal width.

Male abdomen. 2nd tergal apodeme with anterior lobes developed, extending beyond sternum anterior margin; with posterior lobes reduced, extending about 1/4 of tergite posteriorly. 2nd sternal apodemes shorter than the basal width.

Male genitalia. Pygofer with vestigial tubercle on caudo-ventral margin. Subgenital plates moderately long and broad. Aedeagus with base slightly extended to connective; shaft short, twice as broad basally than at apex in lateral view, apical appendages moderately long, strongly curved ventrally, hook-like in lateral aspect, divergent.

Holotype: male, CHINA, Yunnan Prov., Kunming City, 6.v.1983, Coll. Wu Jianyi (SHEM).

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the short aedeagal shaft with ventrally curved apical appendages and short 2nd abdominal apodemes.

Etymology. The specific epithet “ harperatus ” refers to the hooklike apical appendages of the aedeagus.