Biology:Macrosteles

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Short description: Genus of true bugs

Macrosteles
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Macrosteles horvathi from Commanster, Belgian High Ardennes
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadellidae
Tribe: Macrostelini
Genus: Macrosteles
Fieber, 1866[1]
Species

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Macrosteles is a leafhopper genus in the tribe Macrostelini with more than 80 species, most in the northern hemisphere. Some species are known to migrate.[2]

Species

  • Macrosteles alpinus (Zetterstedt, 1828)
  • Macrosteles bimaculatus
  • Macrosteles binotata
  • Macrosteles borealis
  • Macrosteles chobauti Ribaut, 1952
  • Macrosteles cristatus (Ribaut, 1927)
  • Macrosteles empetri (Ossiannilsson, 1935)
  • Macrosteles fascifrons - the aster leafhopper
  • Macrosteles guttatus
  • Macrosteles horvathi
  • Macrosteles laevis (Ribaut, 1927)
  • Macrosteles latiaedeagus
  • Macrosteles lepidus
  • Macrosteles oshanini Razvyazkina, 1957
  • Macrosteles parvidens
  • Macrosteles quadrilineatus - the aster leafhopper
  • Macrosteles slossonae
  • Macrosteles tibetensis
  • Macrosteles variatus
  • many others.

References

  1. Review of the leafhopper genus Macrosteles Fieber (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China. Zhang Y, Lin L and Kwon Y.J, Zootaxa, 2013, volume 3700, issue 3, pages 361-392, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3700.3.3
  2. Meade, A.B. & A.G. Peterson. 1964. Origin of populations of the six-spotted leafhopper, Macrosteles fascifrons, in Anoka county, Minnesota. J. Econ. Entomol. 57: 885-888.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q4043562 entry