Macrosteles
Creators: name: Yalin, Zhang
name: Lin, Lu
name: Kwon, Yong Jung
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Macrosteles

description: Checklist of Macrosteles species and species groups in China
alpinus species-group (Plates 1–3)
alpinus (Zetterstedt, 1828), new record
fascifrons (Stål, 1858)
Note: The identity of M. alpinus and M. fascifrons, which were synonymized by Vilbaste (1980) although he did not examine the type material, was confirmed after examination of both species (Kwon, 1988). Kwon has recognized the type-locality Sitka is placed in the island Baranof of Alaska, near to western coastal area of British Columbia and had tried to make an expedition to this island to collect the M. fascifrons specimens to confirm the synonymy with M. alpinus, so the type-locality of M. fascifrons (Sitka, Alaska) is a coastal town well below the boreal-alpine habitat of M. alpinus (Kwon, 1988).
cristatus Ribaut, 1927
latiaedeagus Dai, Li & Chen, 2008, syn. nov.
laevis (Ribaut, 1927)
lindbergi Dlabola 1963, stat. nov.
nabiae Kwon, sp. nov.
tibetensis Dai, Li & Chen, 2008
Distribution: six species in China (alpinus, cristatus, laevis, lindbergi, nabiae, tibetensis) and there are many species in the New World (Kwon, 1988).
falcatus species-group (Plate 4)
choui Zhang & Lu, sp. nov.
falcatus Zhang & Lu, sp. nov.
Distribution: two species, found only in China (choui, falcatus).
fieberi species-group (Plates 5–6)
lividus (Edwards, 1894), new record
bimaculatus Dai, Li & Chen, 2008, syn. nov. spinosus Kwon, sp. nov.
viridigriseus (Edwards, 1924)
symphorosus Yang, syn. nov.
Distribution: three species from China (lividus, spinosus, viridigriseus), one Holarctic species (fieberi) and two found only in the Nearctic (similis Kwon, skalkaiensis Beirne).
guttatus species-group (Plate 8)
guttatus (Matsumura, 1915)
heiseles Kuoh, 1981, syn. nov.
Distribution: one Holarctic species in China (guttatus), a similar species from the Baltic region (nubilis Ossiannilsson) and an entirely pale species from Japan (buzensis).
variata species-group (Plates 12–13)
abludens Anufriev, 1968, new record
albicostalis Vilbaste, 1968, new record
brochus Zhang & Lu, sp. nov.
parastriifrons Zhang & Lu, sp. nov.
striifrons Anufriev 1968
serrata Dai, Li & Xing 2011, syn. nov.
Distribution: mostly Nearctic species (Kwon, 1988), but with five species in China (abludens, albicostalis, brochus, parastriifrons, striifrons), two in Europe (sardus Ribaut, variatus Fallén) and an undescribed species from Africa.
Excluded species
Cicadula flaveolus [sic] Matsumura (1908) was transferred to Macrosteles by Matsumura (1914). No further description has appeared, and the characters of the male genitalia are still unknown. Vilbaste (1976) proposed Cicadula flaveola as a synonym of Nesoclutha erythrocephala (Ferrari) based on the external features of Matsumura’s type specimen, but it is female.
Homonymy
serrata Dai, Li & Xing 2011 [sic]
Note: This species is a homonym of M. serratus Kwon, 2010 a and the latter is valid based on priority. M. serrata Dai et al. is treated as a junior synonym of M. striifrons here based on the similar characters of the aedeagus, with some teeth on the shaft dorsally. Thus, based on the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 4th edition, Art. 60.2, the junior homonym, M. serrata Dai, Li & Xing [nec Kwon] does not need to be replaced because the synonym, M. striifrons, is available and becomes the valid name for the taxon.
description: Published as part of Yalin, Zhang, Lin, Lu & Kwon, Yong Jung, 2013, Review of the Leafhopper Genus Macrosteles Fieber (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, pp. 361-392 in Zootaxa 3700 (3) on pages 363-364, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3700.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/248993