Alebroides Matsumura
Creators: name: Qin, Dao-Zheng
name: Zhang, Ya-Lin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Alebroides

description: Key to species for Chinese Alebroides Matsumura (males)
1. Aedeagus with preatrium produced ventrally near its base...................................................... 2
- Aedeagus with preatrium not produced ventrally............................................................. 3
2. Ventral pygofer appendage with sculpture of minute hairlike outgrowths in apical third...................... A. barbatus
- Ventral pygofer appendage smooth, without hairlike outgrowths............................................ A. rayi
3. Ventral pygofer appendage bifurcated apically.................................................. A. nigroscutellus
- Ventral pygofer appendage unbifurcated apically............................................................. 4
4. Anal tube process with lobate branch...................................................................... 5
- Anal tube process without lobate branch................................................................... 8
5. Aedeagal shaft with lateral processes; abdominal apodemes reaching anterior part of segment 6................. A. haedus
- Aedeagal shaft without lateral processes; abdominal apodemes reaching end of segment 5............................ 6
6. Ventral pygofer appendage abrupt at apex dorsally................................................... A. vicarius
- Ventral pygofer appendage terminated in dorsal process, not abrupt at apex........................................ 7
7. Anal tube appendage evenly curved in apical half; lobate branch situated at base of anal tube process.... A. muzitaneus n. sp.
- Anal tube appendage sinuate in apical half; lobate branch situated at midlength of anal tube process............ A. fumosus
8. Anal tube process bifurcated apically...................................................................... 9
- Anal tube process unbifurcated apically................................................................... 11
9. Ventral pygofer appendage bearing a row of latero-ventral teeth in caudal half........................... A. marginatus
- Ventral pygofer appendage not bearing latero-ventral teeth in caudal half......................................... 10
10. Male pygofer almost quadrangular; aedeagus in ventral view widest in apical 2/5.......................... A. flavifrons
- Male pygofer narrowing caudad, not quadrangular; aedeagus in ventral view widest at subapex................. A. similis
11. Aedeagal shaft at least twice as long as the preatrium.................................................. A. ursulae
- Aedeagal shaft shorter or at most, nearly as long as the preatrium............................................... 12
12. Ventral pygofer appendage bearing depression or concavity subapically.......................................... 13
- Ventral pygofer appendage not as above................................................................... 20
13. Ventral pygofer appendage sinuate....................................................................... 14
- Ventral pygofer appendage arcuate....................................................................... 16
14. Anal tube process sinuate................................................................ A. parafuscus n. sp.
- Anal tube process arcuate.............................................................................. 15
15. Ventral pygofer appendage with a few concavities on dorsal side.......................................... A. salicis
- Ventral pygofer appendage with concavity absent, if present, then on ventral side....................... A. yanglinginus
16. Anal tube process long, arcuate, reaching half the height of pygofer................................... A. shirakiellus
- Anal tube process short, sinuate, falcate, or strongly curved in middle to subapex, not reaching half the height of pygofer.. 17
17. Aedeagal shaft in profile with large protrusion baso-ventrally.......................................... A. toroensis
- Aedeagal shaft in profile without protrusion baso-ventrally.................................................... 18
18. Aedeagus in ventral view widest near apex; abdominal apodemes reaching end of segment 4................ A. obliteratus
- Aedeagus in ventral view widest at apical 2/5.............................................................. 19
19. Anal tube process distinctly sinuate in lateral view................................................... A. sinuatus
- Anal tube process falcate in lateral view............................................................ A. falcatus
20. Ventral pygofer appendage straight....................................................................... 21
- Ventral pygofer appendage arcuate....................................................................... 22
21. Aedeagus with preatrium s-shaped in profile; abdominal apodemes reaching end of segment 4................ A. discretus
- Aedeagus with preatrium almost straight in profile; abdominal apodemes reaching near caudal extreme of segment 5............................................................................................... A. shaanxiensis
22. Ventral pygofer appendage covered with sculpture of minute hair-like cuticular outgrowths.......................... 23
- Ventral pygofer appendage not as above................................................................... 24
23. Aedeagal shaft with dorsal apical hook elongated and narrow; ventral pygofer appendage without deep serration on ventral margin..................................................................................... A. wushensis
- Aedeagal shaft with dorsal apical hook short; ventral pygofer appendage with deep serration on ventral margin...................................................................................................... A. rubicundus
24. Aedeagal shaft with pair of lateral processes....................................................... A. waimingi
- Aedeagal shaft without pair of lateral processes............................................................. 25
25. Anal tube process curved apically; aedeagus shaft without broad blunt ventral protrusion at midlength..... A. dworakowskae
- Anal tube process sinuate apically; aedeagus shaft with broad blunt ventral protrusion at midlength............... A. luteus
description: Published as part of Qin, Dao-Zheng & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Taxonomic study of the typhlocybine leafhopper genus Alebroides Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in China, pp. 31-44 in Zootaxa 2987 on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203607