Alebroides dworakowskae 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 : 39

Alebroides dworakowskae Chou & Zhang, 1987

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Alebroides dworakowskae Chou & Zhang, 1987: 291 ; Zhang, 1990: 136; Dworakowska, 1997: 288.

Specimens examined. China: 13 (holotype), Huoditang, Ningshan, Shaanxi Province, 14 Aug. 1984, coll. Yalin Zhang (NWAFU); 6Ƥ, Haoping temple, Taibaishan, Shaanxi Province, 13 Nov. 1983, 1200 m; 23 2Ƥ, 18 Jul. 1984; 1Ƥ, 17 Jul. 1984; 13, 20 Jul. 1984, campus of NWAFU, Yangling, Shaanxi Province; 103 6Ƥ, Huoditang, Ningshan, Shaanxi Province, 14 Aug. 1984, coll. Yalin Zhang; 23 3Ƥ, 21 Jun. 1983, 2100 m; 13 1Ƥ, 30 May 1983, 2100 m, Taibaishan, Shaanxi Province, coll. group of insect survey for Taibaishan; 13, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, 20 May 1980; 1Ƥ, Zhen’an, Shaanxi Province, 13 May 1981; 13 6Ƥ, Liuba, Shaanxi Province, 6 Oct. 1980, coll. Ning Ma; 23 3Ƥ, Qinling, Shaanxi Province, 10 Sept. 1987, coll. Yonghui Chai; 13, Fengxian, Shaanxi Province, Aug. 1980, coll. Hong Sun; 1Ƥ, Wugong, Shaanxi Province, 31 Aug. 1983, coll. Jingruo Zhou; 13, Shiquan, Shaanxi Province, 26 Apr. 1984; 1Ƥ, Qinling Railway Station, Shaanxi Province, 13 Oct. 1973, 1400 m, coll. Io Chou & Chou Tian; 13, Zhenba, Shaanxi Province, 29 Apr. 1980; 2Ƥ, Xunyang, Shaanxi Province, 24 Apr. 1980; 13, Ankang, Shaanxi Province, 23 Jun. 1980, coll. Jianhua Wei; 63 3Ƥ, Huoditang, Ningshan, Shaanxi Province, 15 Apr. 1985, coll. Jinfang Li; 93 3Ƥ, Huashan, Shaanxi Province, 30 Sept. 1983, coll. Xiaolin Lu; 143 37Ƥ, 13 Oct. 1980; 2Ƥ, 25 Jun. 1980, Nanwutai, Zhouzhi, Shaanxi Province; 13 1Ƥ, 16 May 1981, coll. Ning Ma; 23 10Ƥ, Nanwutai, Shaanxi Province, 15 May 1980, coll. Io Chou & Longcheng Xiang; 33, Tiantanshan, Fengxian, Shaanxi Province, 9 Jun. 1998; 133 6Ƥ, Xunyangba, Ningshan, Shaanxi Province, 6 Jun. 1998, coll. Linghuan Yang; 23 6Ƥ, 4 Jul. 2001, 2140 m, Qiujiaba, Wenxian, Gansu Province, 2140 m, coll. Qiang Sun; 23 1Ƥ, Shenlongjia, Hubei Province, 27 Jul. 2001; 13 2Ƥ, Wudangshan, Hubei Province, 20 Jul. 2001, coll. Min Huang & Guilin Zhang; 23 6Ƥ, 1 Sept. 1981; 3Ƥ, 4 Sept. 1981; 1Ƥ, 6 Sept. 1981; 13 4Ƥ, 7 Sept. 1981; 23, 30 Aug. 1980, Sangzhi, Hunan Province, coll. Xinwang Tong; 53 5Ƥ, Wenquan, Kunming, Yunnan Province, 24 Mar. 1981, coll. Io Chou, Mingtang Liu & Jingruo Zhou; 13, 23 Mar. 1982; 33 1Ƥ, 21 Aug. 1982, Wenquan, Kunming, Yunnan Province, coll. Sumei Wang & Jingruo Zhou; 13, Dayaoshan, Guangxi Autonomous Region, 9 Sept. 2000, coll. Zhenjiang Liu, Xiangqun Yuan & Zhongli Sha (13 1Ƥ in BMNH, rest in NWAFU).

Distribution. China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangxi).

Remarks. Alebroides dworakowskae is distinguished by the following combination of charatcters: subgenital plate narrow; paramere with short dentifer; connective short and broad; aedeagal shaft declined at almost right angle from atrial rim and preatrium, in profile nearly same width over entire length and curved upward, base of shaft spoonlike and dorsally strongly convex in profile, gonopore dorsal. Based on these characters, the authors suggest Alebroides dworakowskae should be assigned to the A. fuscus species group rather than A. marginatus species group. The aedeagus of the holotype is reillustrated in Figs 31, 32 .

Figures

FIGURES 27 – 41. 27, 28, Alebroides dinghuensis Chou & Zhang (holotype); 29, 30, Alebroides flavifrons Matsumura (after Dworakowska, 1997); 31, 32, Alebroides dworakowskae Chou & Zhang (holotype); 33 – 36, Alebroides yanglinginus Chou & Zhang (holotype); 37 – 41, Alebroides taibaiensis Chou & Zhang (holotype). 27, 29, 31, 33, 37, aedeagus, lateral view; 28, 30, 32, 34, 38, aedeagus, ventral view; 39, pygofer and anal tube process, lateral view; 35, 40, ventral pygofer appendage; 36, 41, anal tube process, lateral view.