Macropsis antibia Tishechkin 2019
Creators: name: Tishechkin, Dmitri Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Macropsis
Macropsis antibia

description: 7. Macropsis antibia Tisheсhkin sp. n.
Figs. 34–40, 109–117
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Material examined. Holotype, ♂: Ethiopia, Ambo, 16. VI. 1990, shrubs including Acacia, A.F. Emelyanov leg.; dissected. Paratypes, all collected in Ethiopia, Ambo by A.F. Emelyanov: 3. V. 1990, shrubs, 1 ♀, dissected; 10. V. 1990, 1 ♀; 15. V. 1990, 1 ♀, dissected; 15. V. 1990, Acacia, 4 ♀; 16. V. 1990, Acacia, 2 ♀; 5. VI. 1990, Acacia, 1 ♂; 16. VI. 1990, Acacia, 1 ♀, dissected; 18. VI. 1990, Acacia, 1 ♂, dissected, 1 ♀; 20. VI. 1990, shrubs including Acacia, 1 ♀. Type series deposited in ZIN.
Description. Male reddish brown. General scheme of dark pattern as in M. hippodameia and M. nikippa (Figs. 34–38). In darkest male face with two transverse continuous black stripes and two black dots on crown; in another male black dots absent and upper stripe interrupted in middle (Fig. 38); in light coloured male there is only upper interrupted stripe. Pronotum unmarked, mesonotum with light (sometimes, yellow) midline and with two more or less developed dark spots on each side of it. Proepimeron always with black spot. Forewing semi-transparent with darkened tip of clavus, ends of claval veins, and some veins in apical half of wing (mostly, transverse ones).
Female pale ochreous, as a rule with black spot on proepimeron; abdomen sometimes greenish (Figs. 39–40). Forewing transparent or semi-transparent, with darkened tip of clavus and more or less developed (sometimes reduced to small dot) dark spot around transverse veins in basal parts of preapical cells; occasionally inner angle of clavus also more or less darkened.
Apex of crown and anterior margin of pronotum rounded (Fig. 35). Median keel distinguishable only on mesonotum, in males sometimes entirely absent.
Abdominal apodemes of 2 nd tergite in male with long straight lobes, somewhat angulate at tips and separated by oval notch; sternal apodemes triangular, separated by rounded notch (Fig. 109). Penis in side view slender, evenly tapering apically (Fig. 110). Style with rounded tip slightly bent inwards (Fig. 113). Similarly to M. hippodameia and M. nikippa, pygofer lobes with strongly sclerotized ribs along back margins. Pygofer process of usual length, reach dorsal margin of pygofer, with almost straight distal parts (Figs. 111–112). 2 nd valvulae of ovipositor with 3–5 preapical teeth (Figs. 114–115). Female 7 th sternite triangular, with small shallow notch on hind margin (Figs. 116–117).
Body length (including tegmina): ♂, 3.2–3.4 mm; ♀, 3.5–4.1 mm.
Diagnosis. Differs from M. rhea by the shape of female 7 th sternite. Differs from M. tithonia and M. xerophila by the shape of dark pattern on pro- and mesonotum. Much smaller than M. octopunctata = M. pondoensis.
Differs from M. minuscula, M. bussaensis, M. thargelia, and M. nigrosignata by more slender penis (Figs. 68, 71, 73, 77). Differs from M. bitaeniata and M. hippodameia by smaller size and coloration.
Similar to M. nikippa sp. n., but differs from it by shape of style tip, longer pygofer process, coloration and smaller number of preapical teeth on 2 nd valvulae of ovipositor. In external appearance, females of M. antibia differ from females of M. nikippa by pale brownish head, pro-, and mesonotum (green or greenish yellow in M. nikippa).
Host. Acacia sp.
Etymology. By analogy with M. nikippa, the name of this species derives from the name of the other daughter of Hippodamia and Pelops, Antibia.
description: Published as part of Tishechkin, Dmitri Yu., 2019, Macropsini (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) from the vicinity of Ambo, Ethiopia, pp. 365-376 in Zootaxa 4664 (3) on page 372, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3772387