Macropsis suspecta Tishechkin, 1994

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 : 384

1. Macropsis suspecta Tishechkin, 1994

Figs. 5–7 , 48–54

Description. Species with very variable coloration. Brown, greyish brown, or reddish brown, occasionally, with black pattern on head, pro-, and mesonotum ( Figs. 5–7 ). Most specimens have black frontal spot. In some populations, among females green color form occurs in significant proportion or even prevails.

Male abdominal apodemes of 2 nd tergite short and comparatively narrow, separated by wide round notch, usually, with truncate tips ( Figs. 48–49 ). Sternal apodemes strongly convergent, separated by narrow notch of variable shape, with truncate or rounded tips ( Figs. 50–51 ). Penis stem in side view wide, with slight extension in middle ( Figs. 52–53 ). 2 nd valvulae of ovipositor usually with 2–3 preapical teeth each ( Fig. 54 ).

Body length (including tegmina): ♂, 4.3–4.7 mm; ♀, 4.7–5.4 mm.

Host. On poplars from the section Tacamachaca. Feeds on Populus talassica in Dzhungarsky Alatau Mtn. Range and on P. laurifolia in Tarbagatai Mtn. Range.

Distribution. Eastern Kazakhstan, Southern Siberia, the Russian Far East. In Southeastern Kazakhstan was found in the eastern part of Dzhungarsky Alatau Mtn. Range and on Tarbagatai Mtn. Range.

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.