Anaceratagallia fragariae Mityaev, 1971

Tishechkin, D. Yu., 2022, New and interesting records of Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera) in European Russia, Russian Entomological Journal 31 (3), pp. 234-248 : 237

9. Anaceratagallia fragariae Mityaev, 1971

Figs 13–14.

DISTRIBUTION. Ukraine, European Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan [ Mityaev, 2002; Tishechkin, 2020a].

RECORD. Drawings of genitalia and oscillograms of calling signals of males from Moscow Oblast, Voskresensk District, environs of Beloozerskiy Town are given in Tishechkin [2020a]. This is the first record of A. fragariae in Russia.

REMARKS. Records of this species from European Russia and Ukraine [ Tishechkin, 2020a] suggest its wide distribution in Eastern Europe.

A. fragariae belongs to the A. ribauti (Ossiannilsson, 1938) species group. Similar to A. ribauti (Figs 15–16) and differs from it only in somewhat wider aedeagus stem in lateral view (cf. Figs 13–14 and 15–16; differences between two species in the aedeagus width are shown by arrows on Figs 14 and 16). Also, these two species distinctly differ in the male calling signal patterns [ Tishechkin, 2020a].