Published October 14, 2025 | Version v1
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Oblongitubus Kang & Zhang 2025, gen. nov.

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China & Shaanxi A & F Technology University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China

Description

Genus Oblongitubus Kang & Zhang gen. nov.

Type species. Oblongitubus linearis Kang & Zhang sp. nov.

Description. Head slightly wider than pronotum; crown with anterior margin bluntly rounded; median length less than interocular width; coronal suture distinct. Pronotum with anterior margin curved, parallel to posterior margin; median length of pronotum slightly longer than crown median length; scutoscutellar sulcus slightly curved. Forewing with appendix not extending around wing apex, 1st apical cell broad, parallel-sided; 2nd apical cell rectangular, parallel-sided; 3rd apical cell thin; 4th apical cell triangular. Hind wing with submarginal vein evanescent apically, vein RP very short, 1st apical cell partially open.

Abdominal apodeme weak. Male genital capsule cylindrical. Pygofer side with setae and microsetae. Subgenital plate not exceeding posterior margin of pygofer, with row of macrosetae medially. Paramere elongate. Aedeagus long; shaft long tubular; gonopore apical.

Distribution. Palearctic and Oriental Regions.

Etymology. The generic name comes from the combination of Latin words “oblongus (gracile)” and “tubus (tube)”, referring to the gracile tubular aedeagal shaft.

Gender. Masculine.

Note. This genus is similar to Asialebra Dworakowska, 1971 in the shape of the pygofer, but can be distinguished by the hind wing with submarginal vein evanescent apically with 1st apical cell partially open.

Key to species (male)

1. Forewing with bold orange-red stripe (Fig. 3L)................................... O. linearis Kang & Zhang sp. nov.

- Forewing with only indistinct markings.................................................................... 2

2. Pygofer side boot-like in lateral view (Fig. 1H).............................. O. caligicaudatus Luo & Huang sp. nov.

- Pygofer side subtriangular with distal half curved dorsad (Fig. 2E)............... O. licinicaudatus Luo & Huang sp. nov.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 551-570 in Zootaxa 5706 (4) on pages 552-553, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5706.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/17882189

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kang & Zhang
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Oblongitubus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Oblongitubus Kang & Zhang, 2025

References

  • Dworakowska, I. (1971) On Eastern Hemisphere Alebrini (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Sciences, Serie des Sciences Biologiques, 19 (7 - 8), 493-500.