Macrosteles

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraordo: Cicadomorpha
Superfamilia: Membracoidea

Familia: Cicadellidae
Subfamilia: Deltocephalinae
Tribus: Macrostelini
Genus: Macrosteles
Species: M. bimaculatus - M. latiaedeagus – M. parafalcatus – M. tibetensis

Name

Macrosteles Fieber, 1866

References

Fieber, F.X. 1866. Neue Gattungen und Arten in Homoptern (Cicadina Bur.). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 16: 497–516. BHL. Reference page.

Dai, Li & Chen, 2008, Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 33 (1): 23–26

Zhang, Y.; Lin, L.; Kwon, Y.J. 2013: Review of the leafhopper genus Macrosteles Fieber (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China. Zootaxa 3700(3): 361–392. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3700.3.3 Reference page.
Naveed, H. & Zhang, Y-L. 2018. Review of the leafhopper tribe Macrostelini Kirkaldy (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in Pakistan with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4462(2): 257–273. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.2.8 Paywall Reference page.

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

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
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.