Macropsis emeljanovi Dubovskiy, 1966

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

17. Macropsis emeljanovi Dubovskiy, 1966

Figs. 41–42 , 197

Macropsis pseudomulsanti Tishechkin, 1993: 55–57 (synonymy by Tishechkin, 2002).

Description. Male pale yellow with moderately to strongly developed dark pattern on head, pro-, and mesonotum ( Fig. 41 ). Forewings transparent with more or less darkened veins. Female similar to male but as a rule with only pale traces of dark pattern and with light veins on forewings ( Fig. 42 ). In Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan emerald green variation with only few dark markings also occurs, but it was not found in the eastern part of the range.

Body length (including tegmina): ♂, 3.4–3.7 mm; ♀, 4.2–4.5 mm.

Host. Hippophae rhamnoides .

Distribution. Mountains of Central Asia and Southern Kazakhstan, Southern Siberia eastwards up to Tyva, Mongolia, and China (Xinjiang). In Southeastern Kazakhstan was found only on Dzhungarsky Alatau 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.