Cicada sexnotatus Fallén, 1806: 34.
Cicadula sexnotata Fallén, 1806 (Wrong genus): Behdad (1992), Modarres Awal (1994). Macrosteles sexnotatus (Fallen, 1806): Nast (1972), Modarres Awal (1994), Mirzayans (1995), Pakarpour et al. (2011 c), Pakarpour et al. (2011 a), Khormali (2013), Abdollahi et al. (2013), Abdollahi et al. (2015). Recorded distribution in Iran: Northwest, centre, southwest and south.