Aphrodes bicincta (Schrank, 1776)

Tishechkin, D. Yu., 2022, New and interesting records of Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera) in European Russia, Russian Entomological Journal 31 (3), pp. 234-248 : 239-240

17. Aphrodes bicincta (Schrank, 1776)

Figs 58–60.

DISTRIBUTION. Widespread from Western Europe to Kazakhstan and Central Asia. So far was not found in Siberia and in the Russian Far East [ Tishechkin, 2017].

RECORDS. Reliably known from the central and southern regions of European Russia [ Tishechkin, 1998, 2017].

REMARK. Prefers dry open habitats, usually feeds on different Fabaceae . In the forest zone lives on dry meadows, in the steppes of European Russia and Kazakhstan and in the arid mountains of Central Asia also occurs in rather wet biotopes along streams and rivers.

Figs 34–66. 34–35 — Macropsis mulsanti ; 36 — M. elaeagni ; 37–39 — Schizandrasca ussurica ; 40–45 — Hephathus nanus ; 46–51 — H. achilleae ; 52–57 — H. freyi ; 58–60 — Aphrodes bicincta ; 61–63 — A. diminuta ; 64–66 — A. makarovi . 34 — male, habitus, dorsal view; 35 — same, female; 36 — habitus, lateral view; 37 — same, dorsal view; 38 — male genitalia, pygofer removed, lateral view; 39 — same, ventral view; 40–57 — face; 58–66 — aedeagus, lateral view.