Macrosteles laevis (Ribaut, 1927)*

Abdollahi, Tandis, Jalalizand, Ali Reza, Mozaffarian, Fariba & Wilson, Michael, 2015, A faunistic study on the leafhoppers of northwestern Iran (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), ZooKeys 496, pp. 27-51 : 38

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Cicadellidae

Macrosteles laevis (Ribaut, 1927)*

Localities.

Zonuschay, Maku ( Dlabola 1981); Miynaeh-Zanjan, Miyaneh-Siah chaman, Tabriz-Shabestar ( Dlabola 1971) (Fig. 1, ASh5, AG1, ASh16, ASh15, ASh7).

Worldwide distribution.

East Palaearctic, Europe (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Britain I., Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Iceland, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia Central, Russia North, South Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia), Near East, Nearctic region ( De Jong 2013).

Comment.

Kheyri (1989) reported this species as a sugar beet pest in most sugar beet growing areas in Iran.