Solabra Luo & Huang, 2025

Luo, Yixiao, Kang, Juxia, Zhang, Yalin & Huang, Min, 2025, Descriptions of new taxa and records of the microleafhopper tribe Alebrini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, Zootaxa 5706 (4), pp. 551-570 : 563

Genus Solabra Luo & Huang gen. nov.

Type species. Solabra robusta Luo & Huang sp. nov.

Description. Crown with anterior margin slightly produced; median length less than interocular width. Pronotum wider than head, with posterior margin slightly curved; median length of pronotum twice longer than crown median length. Forewing with appendix extending around wing apex to 2nd apical cell; 1st apical cell long; 2nd apical cell broad; 3rd apical cell narrow; 4th apical cell subtriangular. Hind wing with submarginal vein confluent with vein RP.

Abdominal apodeme reaching to 3rd sternite. Pygofer slightly divided into two parts; subgenital plate without macrosetae on ventral surface. Paramere thin. Connective Y-shaped. Aedeagus with shaft robust.

Distribution. Palearctic and Oriental Regions.

Etymology. The generic name comes from the anagram of generic name “ Sobrala ”, referring to the similarity between the new genus and Sobrala .

Gender. Feminine.

Note. This genus is similar to Sobrala Dworakowska, 1977 in body shape, venation of the forewing and the lack of macrosetae on the subgenital plate, but the new genus has hind wing submarginal vein confluent with vein RP and the 1st apical cell closed, and has a robust aedeagal shaft.