Macropsis tarbagataica Mityaev, 1971

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 : 385

3. Macropsis tarbagataica Mityaev, 1971

Figs. 10 , 62–68

Description. Bright green with yellowish tinge, forewings as a rule slightly infumose, especially in males ( Fig. 10 ).

Abdominal apodemes of 2 nd tergite in male as a rule shorter than their width at base, separated by wide notch, more or less rounded, with margins of irregular shape ( Figs. 62–63 ). Sternal apodemes approximately triangular, occasionally with more or less prominent projections on inner margins at base ( Figs. 64–65 ). Penis in side view wide, with indistinct extension in middle ( Figs. 66–67 ). 2 nd valvulae of ovipositor with 4 preapical teeth ( Fig. 68 ).

Body length (including tegmina): ♂, 3.8–4.3 mm; ♀, 4.6–5.0 mm.

Host. In Kazakhstan and Central Asia was found on Salix alba (section Salix ) and on several species from the section Helix . In Southern Urals, Russia one series of specimens was collected from S. viminalis (section Viminella ).

Distribution. The whole territory of Kazakhstan, mountains of Central Asia (Tien Shan and Alay); reaches Southern Urals, Russia in the extreme northwest of the range and Mongolia in the extreme northeast. In Southeastern Kazakhstan is rather common on willows along riverbanks at the foothills and in the plains.

Remarks. Identification of M. tarbagataica is based on investigation of a series of paratypes from Southeastern Kazakhstan with the label “Semipalatinsk Oblast [presently the East Kazakhstan Oblast], Urdzharsk Region, mouth of the Urdzharka [= Urdzhar] River. 15. VI. 1963. I. Mityaev” (our comments in square brackets) deposited in the collection of ZMMU.

Figures

FIGURES 5–28. Macropsis spp., lateral view.

FIGURES 48–81. Macropsis suspecta (48–54), M. vicina (55–61), M. tarbagataica (62–68), and M. iliensis (69–81). 48–49, 55–56, 62–63―male abdominal apodemes of the 2nd tergite; 50–51, 57–58, 64–65, 69, 71—the 2nd sternite; 52–53, 59–60, 66–67, 70, 72, 74, 77, 80―penis, lateral view; 54, 61, 68, 75, 78, 81―the 2nd valvulae of ovipositor; 73, 76, 79―male 2nd abdominal apodemes. 69–70―paratype of M. iliensis; 71–72―paratype of M. tuvensis.