Review of the leafhopper genus Alnetoidia Dlabola (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini) from China, with descriptions of two new species
Author
Cao, Yanghui
Author
Yang, Meixia
Author
Zhang, Yalin
text
Zootaxa
2016
4193
3
573
587
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4193.3.7
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1175-5326
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Alnetoidia
Dlabola, 1958
Type species:
Cicadula alneti
Dahlbom, 1850
, by original designation
Alnetoidia
Dlabola, 1958
: 55
;
Anufriev, 1972
: 721
;
Anufriev & Emeljanov, 1988
: 109
;
Chiang & Knight, 1990
: 193
Description.
Body slim, pale yellow to yellow, usually without dark markings. Head narrower than pronotum. Vertex slightly produced in middle; coronal suture distinct, nearly exceeding anterior margin of vertex. Face with lorum small, anteclypeus inflated in male. Forewing long, 4th apical cell shorter than 1/2 of the 3rd. Hind wing as usual for
Erythroneurini
, RA vein present.
Abdominal apodemes well developed, pocketlike, extended to 4th to 6th sternite.
Male pygofer weakly sclerotized. Pygofer side bearing several rigid setae on posterior margin or some stout macrosetae on inner side of posterior margin; dorsal appendage long and lamellate, articulated to pygofer side; ventral appendage present or absent. Subgenital plate exceeding hind margin of pygofer side, broad at base, gradually narrowing towards apex, with row or rows of marginal microsetae, basal setae longer and forming group, with 2–4 macrosetae. Style with preapical lobe greatly enlarged, apical part extended from dorsal side of preapical lobe, usually footlike, sometimes slender. Connective lamellate, central lobe well developed. Aedeagus shaft tubular, usually with process; dorsal apodeme rudimentary to well developed, length of preatrium varies among species; gonopore apical.
Distribution.
Palaearctic, Oriental, Nearctic.