Alebra viridis Rey, 1894

Lock, Koen, 2011, Fifty leafhoppers new to Belgium (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 88, pp. 1-28 : 1-28

Alebra viridis Rey, 1894

This species can be distinguished from other Alebra Fieber, 1872 species by the dark underside of both thorax and abdomen ( Fig. 4 ). In males, the apodemes of the first abdominal sternite are dark except the bottom and they have an oval enclosure and a narrow aperture ( Fig. 5). Usually on Quercus petraea (Mattuschka) Lieblein. VII-X.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: Oudenaarde, Bos t’Ename (50.853, 3.644), 16.VIII.2015; Wetteren, Warandeduinen (51.007, 3.904), 6.VIII.2017; Stekene, Steengelaag (51.204, 4.054), 21.VII.2018.

Figures

Fig. 4. Alebra viridis Rey, 1894, ventral view (photo by Koen Lock).