Taxonomic Study On Chinese Macropsinae

The thesis is a taxonomic study on the leafhoppers of the subfamily Macropsinae from China. It includes the following parts: introduction, review of its taxonomic history, matriels and methods, morphology, biology and economic importance, zoogeography, taxonomy and discussion of Macropsinae. Firstly, the reasearch history on the subfamily Macropsinae is reviewd; In the morphology part, the taxonomic characters and terms are outlined; In the biology and economic importance section,some known host plants and 3 important leafhoppers that carry virus are recorded; Zoogeographical analysis shows that most of the Chinese genera and species are found in Southwestern China and center Huazhong; Finally, 45 species of 11 genera in the tribe Macropsini are recognized, of which 26 species and 4 genera are new to science, 2 genera and 9 species are newly recorded from China, and 2 species are transferred as new combinations .Keys are given to all the generic and specific taxa concerned. References and index to both Chinese and scientific names are attached. At the end of the paper, some important information and figures with detailed characters of all the new species are illustrated.The new taxa, new records to Chinese fauna and new combinations in this study are listed as follows:New genera: Doroflexus gen.nov., Digitalis gen.nov., Tennuisimus gen.nov., Expansus gen.nov.New species: Macropsella abruptus, sp.nov., Macropsella acanthotomicus, sp.nov., Hephathus arciforma, sp.nov., Dorsoflexus bimaculatus, sp.nov., Digitalis striolatus, sp.nov., Digitalis conicus, sp.nov., Tennuisimus serrnlotus, sp.nov., Expansus multimaculatus, sp.nov., Expansus xanthosis, sp.nov., Expansus bothrogonis, sp.nov., Pedionis mecotus, sp.nov., Oncopsis nigrilinus, sp.nov., Oncopsis convexus, sp.nov., Oncopsis curvatus, sp.nov., Oncopsis arcuatus, sp.nov., Oncopsis ellipticis, sp.nov., Oncopsis furcutus, sp.nov., Macropsis brownalis, sp.nov., Macropsis concavusi, sp.nov., Macropsis albonatis, sp.nov., Macropsis brevis, sp.nov., Macropsis asteriformus, sp.nov.,Macropsis repandus, sp.nov., Macropsis corniforis, sp.nov., Macropsis orbiculatus, sp.nov., Macropsis punctiformis, sp.nov.New combinations: Digitalis aomians (Kuoh), Digitalis testacea (Kuoh),n.comb.New generic records: Macropsella Hamilton, Hephathus Ribaut, n.rec.New specific records: Pediopsis kurentsovi Anufriev, Pediopsoides dapitana (Merino), Pediopsoides jualanus Anufriev, Oncopsis kogotensis (Matsumura), Macropsis tibialis (Scott), Macropsis hamiltoni Viraktamath, Macropsis involutus Dlabola, Macropsis ulmaria Anufriev, Macropsis ziziphi Viraktamath, n.rec.The type species of the new species are deposited separately in the Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry (NWSUAF), Institute of Zoology , Academic Sinica (IZAS). Zhongshan University (ZSU), Ningxia Agricultural Academy of Sciences (NXAAS), which are indicated under each species.