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Macrosteles bifurcatus - No Common Name


© Ken Kneidel- note black scutellar angle
© Ken Kneidel- note black head marks
© Erich Hofmann- note smoky wings
Taxonomy
Family: CICADELLIDAESubfamily: DeltocephalinaeTribe: Macrostelini
Taxonomic Author: Beirne, 1952
Identification
Online Photographs: BugGuide, GBIF  iNaturalist                                                                                  
Description: Yellow to yellowish green overall, often with a faint smoky tint to the wings. The body is comparatively elongate. The vertex is rather short and rounded anteriorly; it is more than twice as wide as long. The spot pattern on the head is isolated, or partly confluent. The face has prominent black transverse bands. The male subgenital plate has 9 to 10 prominent macrosetae lining the lateral margins, with a produced, tapered tip to the plate lacking setae. Adult males are 3.5-3.9 mm long, females are 3.8-4.2 mm. (Kwon & Kwon, 2022)

For images of the holotype male, see: BG.

Distribution in North Carolina
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Distribution: Eastern North America, from Florida to northeastern Canada; also as far west as Alaska (Kwon & Kwon, 2022)
Abundance: Previously reported from the state but unclear from where exactly (Kwon & Kwon, 2022); recently found in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain.
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Habitats and Life History
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Plant Associates: Wild rice, Scirpus validus, Sparaganium sp., Typha sp., Zizania aquatica (Kwon & Kwon, 2022)
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Status: Native
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Species Photo Gallery for Macrosteles bifurcatus No Common Name

Photo by: Ken Kneidel
Mecklenburg Co.
Comment: 4.3 mm		Photo by: Ken Kneidel
Mecklenburg Co.
Comment: 4.3 mm
Photo by: Erich Hofmann
New Hanover Co.
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New Hanover Co.
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Photo by: Erich Hofmann
New Hanover Co.
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New Hanover Co.
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Photo by: Ken Kneidel
Mecklenburg Co.
Comment: 4.3 mm		Photo by: Ken Kneidel
Mecklenburg Co.
Comment: 4.3 mm
Photo by: Ken Kneidel
Mecklenburg Co.
Comment: 4.3 mm		Photo by: Ken Kneidel
Mecklenburg Co.
Comment: 4.3 mm