Alebroides discretus 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 : 40

Alebroides discretus Chou & Zhang, 1987

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Alebroides discretus Chou & Zhang, 1987: 293 ; Zhang, 1990:137; Dworakowska, 1997: 287.

Specimens examined. China: 13 (holotype), Luotuoshu, Taibaishan, Shaanxi Province, 28 May 1983, 2100 m, coll. group of insect survey for Taibaishan (NWAFU); 13, 26 May 1983; 13, 29 May 1983; 2Ƥ, 30 May 1983; Luotuoshu, Taibaishan, Shaanxi Province, coll. group of insect survey for Taibaishan; 13, Huoditang, Shaanxi Province, 15 May 1985, coll. Jinfang Li; 13 1Ƥ, Huanglong, Shaanxi Province, 13 Jun. 1980, coll. Ning Ma; 33, Xunyangba, Ningshan, Shaanxi Province, 6 May 1988, coll. Linghuan Yang; 13, Ningshan, Shaanxi Province, 4 Aug. 1984; 13, Qiujiaba, Wenxian, Gansu Province, 4 Jul. 2001, coll. Qiang Sun; 13, Fangxian, Hubei Province, 1 Aug. 2001, coll. Min Huang & Yanli Che; 43 6Ƥ, Nanyan, Wudangshan, Hubei Province, 20 Jul. 2001; 13 1Ƥ, Songbai, Shenlongjia, Hubei Province, 25 Jul. 2001, coll. Min Huang & Guiling Zhang; 13, Emeishan, Sichuan Province, 27 Oct. 1999, 600 m, coll. Daozheng Qin; 23, Dayaoshan, Guangxi Autonomous Region, 9 Sept. 2000, coll. Zhenjiang Liu, Xiangqun Yuan & Zhongli Sha (NWAFU).

Distribution. China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Guangxi).

Remarks. Based on the aedeagus characters of the holotype, we follow Dworakowska (1997) in placing Alebroides discretus in the A. hachijonis species group rather than the A. marginatus species group. The aedeagus is re-illustrated in Figs 42, 43 .

Figures

FIGURES 42 – 50. 42, 43, Alebroides discretus Chou & Zhang (paratype); 44, 45, Alebroides qinlinganus Chou & Zhang (holotype); 46 – 50, Alebroides shaanxiensis Chou & Zhang (holotype). 42, 44, 46, aedeagus, lateral view; 43, 45, 47, aedeagus, ventral view; 48, pygofer and anal tube process, lateral view; 49, ventral pygofer appendage; 50, anal tube process.