Genus Macropsella Hamilton, 1980

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• Macropsella Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [901].

  Type species:

   Macropsis saidora Evans, 1971 by original designation.

Introduction

This is a small genus containing seven species, two in Australia and the remainder in New Guinea. Hamilton (1980) gives the distribution as New Guinea and northern Australia but one of the Australian species, M. thoantias (Kirkaldy), was described from Sydney, New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB) ; Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Body, face, pronotum, legs and tegmina as in Ruandopsis Linnavuori but with anteriormost striae of pronotum oblique, terminating before apex; tegminal veins usually spotted with white. Male pygofer strongly tapered to small, wrinkled membranous lobe at apex, armed on ventral margin with short sharpened spine directed laterad; dorsal connectives linear, unarmed, dorsal end rounded, articulating against upper margins of pygofers (Hamilton 1980).

Members of this genus can be distinguished by their usually white spotted tegminal veins, tapered male pygofer and laterally directed short ventral pygofer spines (Yang et al. 2017).

ID Keys

Hamilton 1980: 881–884

Diagnosis References

Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [901]

Yang, L.Y., Dietrich, C.H. & Zhang, Y.L. 2017. Three new Macropsini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) leafhopper species from Australia. Zootaxa 4273(2): 271–278 [271]

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