Alebroides discretus Chou & Zhang, 1987

Qin, Dao-Zheng & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Taxonomic study of the typhlocybine leafhopper genus Alebroides Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in China, Zootaxa 2987, pp. 31-44 : 40

Alebroides discretus Chou & Zhang, 1987

( Figs 42, 43)

Alebroides discretus Chou & Zhang, 1987: 293 ; Zhang, 1990: 137; Dworakowska, 1997: 287.

Specimens examined. China: 13 ( holotype), Luotuoshu, Taibaishan, Shaanxi Province, 28 May 1983, 2100 m, coll. group of insect survey for Taibaishan ( NWAFU); 13, 26 May 1983; 13, 29 May 1983; 2 Ƥ, 30 May 1983; Luotuoshu, Taibaishan, Shaanxi Province, coll. group of insect survey for Taibaishan; 13, Huoditang, Shaanxi Province, 15 May 1985, coll. Jinfang Li; 13 1 Ƥ, Huanglong, Shaanxi Province, 13 Jun. 1980, coll. Ning Ma; 33, Xunyangba, Ningshan, Shaanxi Province, 6 May 1988, coll. Linghuan Yang; 13, Ningshan, Shaanxi Province, 4 Aug. 1984; 13, Qiujiaba, Wenxian, Gansu Province, 4 Jul. 2001, coll. Qiang Sun; 13, Fangxian, Hubei Province, 1 Aug. 2001, coll. Min Huang & Yanli Che; 43 6 Ƥ, Nanyan, Wudangshan, Hubei Province, 20 Jul. 2001; 13 1 Ƥ, Songbai, Shenlongjia, Hubei Province, 25 Jul. 2001, coll. Min Huang & Guiling Zhang; 13, Emeishan, Sichuan Province, 27 Oct. 1999, 600 m, coll. Daozheng Qin; 23, Dayaoshan, Guangxi Autonomous Region, 9 Sept. 2000, coll. Zhenjiang Liu, Xiangqun Yuan & Zhongli Sha ( NWAFU).

Distribution. China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Guangxi).

Remarks. Based on the aedeagus characters of the holotype, we follow Dworakowska ( 1997) in placing Alebroides discretus in the A. hachijonis species group rather than the A. marginatus species group. The aedeagus is re-illustrated in Figs 42, 43.