Macrosteles

Macrosteles
Macrosteles horvathi from Commanster, Belgian High Ardennes
Scientific classification
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

• Macrosteles at bugguide.net