Macropsis megerlei (Fieber, 1868)

Tishechkin, Dmitri Yu., 2020, Review of the genus Macropsis Lewis, 1836 (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae: Macropsini) of Southeastern Kazakhstan with description of new species, Zootaxa 4838 (3), pp. 381-405 : 394

16. Macropsis megerlei (Fieber, 1868)

Figs. 40 , 196

Macropsis venusta Emelyanov, 1964: 14–15 (synonymy by Tishechkin, 1994).

Description. Face pale yellow with dark spots ( Fig. 40 ). Pronotum yellowish brown with darker median area and back margin and with dark spots on fore margin behind eyes. Scutellum pale yellow. Forewings brown with darker mesonotal margins. Male darker than female.

Body length (including tegmina): ♂, 4.0– 4.4 mm; ♀, 4.5–5.0 mm.

Host. Rosa spp.

Distribution. Europe, East Mediterranean ( Turkey, Lebanon), Transcaucasia, plains of Kazakhstan, Southern Siberia eastwards as far as the Baikal Lake, steppes of Mongolia. In Southeastern Kazakhstan was found in only one locality, environs of Lepsinsk, low mountains of the eastern part of the Dzhungarsky Alatau Mtn. Range.

Figures

FIGURES 29–47. Macropsis spp., lateral view.

FIGURES 165–203. Macropsis aselae sp. n. (165–182), M. illota (183–189), M. sibirica (190–195), M. megerlei (196), M. emeljanovi (197), M. elaeagni (198–199), and M. scabrosa (200–203). 165–167, 183–184, 190–191, 198, 201―male abdominal apodemes of the 2nd tergite; 168–171, 185–186, 192, 199, 202—the 2nd sternite; 172–174, 187–188, 193–194, 196–197, 200―penis, lateral view; 175–177―pygofer process, lateral view; 178–179―style; 180–182, 189, 195, 203―the 2nd valvulae of ovipositor.