Alnetoidia Dlabola, 1958

Lin, Shuanghu, Zou, Hongfen, Huang, Min & Zhang, Yalin, 2023, Five new species and two new records of Erythroneurini from China (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae), Zootaxa 5227 (5), pp. 568-582 : 579

Alnetoidia Dlabola, 1958

Alnetoidia Dlabola, 1958: 55 ; Anufriev, 1972: 721; Anufriev & Emeljanov, 1988: 109; Chiang & Knight, 1990: 193

Type species: Cicadula alneti Dahlbom, 1850 , by original designation

Description. Body slim, pale yellow to yellow, usually without spots or color patterns. Head narrower than pronotum. Eyes pale gray to blackish. Vertex slightly produced medially, coronal suture developed, almost extended to anterior margin of vertex. Face flat or convex in profile, with lorum small, anteclypeus short and broad in male. Forewing extremely long, semitransparent with color of pale yellow to yellow, with first apical cell broadest and second apical cell narrowest, fourth apical cell not extended to tip of wing, shorter than half length of third, AA and AP vein visible. Hind wing transparent, RA vein usually present, submarginal vein (av) developed.

Abdominal apodemes well-developed, pocketlike, extending to sternite IV–VI. Anal tube with or without appendage.

Pygofer weakly sclerotized, usually with several peg-like or microsetae on posterior margin or on inner side of posterior margin, posterior margin rounded. Dorsal appendage slim, articulated to pygofer side. With or without ventral appendages. Subgenital plate broadened subbasally, tapered towards apex, with row of microsetae along outer margin, basal setae longer and forming a group, with 2–4 macrosetae near middle and several microsetae scattered on apical part. Style with preapical lobe greatly enlarged, apex usually foot-like, sometimes slender or truncate. Connective Y-shaped, with manubrium broad, central lobe present. Aedeagal shaft tubular, usually with process; dorsatrium rudimentary to well-developed, length of preatrium varies among species; gonopore apical.

Distribution. Palaearctic, Oriental and Nearctic regions.