Shulebra 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 : 560-561

Genus Shulebra Luo & Huang gen. nov.

Type species. Shulebra brunnala Luo & Huang sp. nov.

Description. Body robust with dark color. Crown with anterior margin bluntly rounded; median length less than interocular width. Pronotum wider than head, with posterior margin slightly curved; median length of pronotum longer than twice crown median length. Forewing with appendix long, extending around wing apex to 3rd apical cell; 1st apical cell long; 2nd and 3rd apical cells short; 4th apical cell triangular. Hind wing infuscate with submarginal vein confluent with vein RP.

Abdominal apodeme at least reaching to end of 3rd sternite. Pygofer side triangular, disc with microsetae and small spiny teeth. Subgenital plate exceeding posterior margin of pygofer, apical 1/4-1/3 narrowed and fold dorsad, ventral surface with row of macrosetae. Paramere short, S-shaped. Connective V-shaped. Aedeagus with shaft elongate and simple, preatrium and dorsal apodeme well-developed; gonopore apical.

Distribution. Oriental Region.

Etymology. The generic name “ Shulebra ” comes from the combination of the word “ Shu (an ancient kingdom)” and generic name “ Alebra ”, referring to the locality the specimens collected and the similarity between the new genus and Alebra .

Gender. Feminine.

Note. This genus is similar to Alebra Fieber, 1872 in venation of wings and to Shaddai Distant, 1918 in the external color pattern. In comparison, Alebra has the posterior margin of the pygofer side concave, but the new genus has the pygofer side undivided and triangular; Shaddai has hind wing submarginal vein evanescent apically with 1st apical cell partially open, but the new genus has hind wing submarginal vein confluent with vein RP and the 1st apical cell closed.