Senebra Kang & Zhang, 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 : 558

Genus Senebra Kang & Zhang gen. nov.

Type species. Senebra bracteiformis Kang & Zhang sp. nov.

Description. Head not wider than pronotum; crown slightly produced; median length less than interocular width; vertex with a round black spot and pair of small spots in front of ocelli; coronal suture distinct. Pronotum with posterior margin slightly curved, median length almost as long as twice crown median length. Forewing with appendix extending to 3rd apical cell; 1st apical cell long, wider at base; 2nd apical cell short, wider at apex; 3rd apical cell small and narrow; 4th apical cell triangular. Hind wing with submarginal vein confluent with vein RP.

Abdominal apodeme reaching to 4th sternite. Pygofer side with dorsal or ventral process, disc covered with some microsetae and distinct scalelike microsculpture. Subgenital plate exceeding posterior margin of pygofer, apical 1/3 curved dorsad, ventral surface with row of macrosetae and microsetae, base with microtrichia. Aedeagus with shaft elongate, base with pair of large processes longer than shaft.

Distribution. Oriental Region.

Etymology. The generic name comes from the combination of Latin word “sina ( China)” and generic name “ Alebra ”, referring to the similarity between the new genus and Alebra .

Gender. Feminine.

Note. This new genus is similar to Alebra Fieber, 1872 in venation of wings, but can be distinguished from the latter by the aedeagal shaft with paired long processes basally.