Shulebra furvala 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 : 562

Shulebra furvala Luo & Huang sp. nov. ( Fig.8 )

Description. Length of male 4.27mm. Crown yellow, anterior margin bluntly rounded, face with a black strip medially ( Figs 8C, 8D ). Pronotum black with posterior margin yellow, wider than head; scutum and scutellum black, scutoscutellar sulcus area yellow ( Figs 8A, 8B ). Forewing black yellow ( Fig. 8E ). Hind wing infuscate ( Fig. 8F ).

Abdominal apodeme reaching to 4th sternite ( Fig. 8G ). Pygofer side with posterodorsal margin row of rigid microsetae, disc with numerous longer microsetae, ventral margin and anterior part with thickened strips ( Fig. 8H ). Subgenital plate narrowed at apical 1/4 with row of macrosetae medially and row of microsetae on outer margin from subapical part to top ( Fig. 8I ). Paramere S-shaped with preapical part slightly expanded ( Fig. 8J ). Connective broad V-shaped ( Fig. 8K ). Aedeagal shaft extremely elongate and slightly dented at apical 1/3 from lateral view ( Figs 8L, 8M ).

Material examined. Holotype. ♂, China, Guizhou Province, Tongren City, Shiqian County, Foding Mountain , 25-VII-2022, coll. Yulin Hu, trapped by light.

Etymology. The species name comes from the combination of Latin words “furv- (black)” and “ala (wing)”, referring to the black forewing.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Shulebra furvala Luo & Huang sp. nov. A. dorsal habitus; B. lateral habitus; C. head, ventral view; D. head, anterior view; E. forewing; F. hind wing; G. abdominal apodemes; H. pygofer side, lateral view; I. subgenital plate; J. paramere; K. connective; L. aedeagus, lateral view; M. aedeagus, posterior view. Scale bars = 1mm (A, B); 0.5mm (C, D).