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Empoasca (Empoasca) profusa Ahmed & Samad, new record for China Empoasca profusa Ahmed & Samad, 1972: 285 Specimens examined. China: 2 3, Bawangling, Hainan Prov., 25 May 1983, coll. Yalin Zhang, light; 1 3, Xinglong, Hainan Prov., 28 April 1983; 23, Mt. Diaoluo, Hainan Prov., 29 May 2007, 944m, coll. Yani Duan (NWAFU). Distribution. China (Hainan), Bangladesh (type locality).

Alebroides vicarius Dworakowska, 1997, new record for China Alebroides vicarius Dworakowska, 1997: 271. Specimen examined. China: 13, Xinzhu, Judian, Yunnan Province, 16 Nov. 1999, 2300 m, coll. I. Dworakowska (NWAFU). Distribution. China (Yunnan), Burma., 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 page 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203607, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1997) A review of the genus Alebroides Matsumura, with description of Shumka gen. nov. (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Oriental Insects, 31, 241 - 407."]}

Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev, 1973: 540. Type species: Empoasca diversa Vilbaste, 1968, by original designation. For generic diagnosis see Qin & Zhang (2008). Distribution: Oriental, Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with description of three new species from China, pp. 22-42 in Zootaxa 3003 on page 23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207054, {"references":["Anufriev, G. A. (1973) The genus Empoasca Walsh, 1864 (Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) in the Soviet Maritime Territory. Annales Zoologici, 30, 537 - 558.","Vilbaste, J. (1968) Faune cicadovykh Primorskogo kraya, Tallin 180 pp.","Qin, D. Z. & Zhang, Y. L. (2008) The leafhopper subgenus Empoasca (Matsumurasca) from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with descriptions of three new species. Z ootaxa, 1817, 18 - 26."]}

Empoasca (Matsumurasca) conifera Dworakowska, 1994 (Figs 35���41) Empoasca (Matsumurasca) conifera Dworakowska, 1994: 102 Type locality. Rumtek, Sikkim, India. (SMTD: Staatliches Museum F��r Tierkunde in Dresden, Germany). Distribution. India (Sikkim)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with description of three new species from China, pp. 22-42 in Zootaxa 3003 on page 27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207054, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1994) Typhlocybinae (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) of Sikkim, a preliminary survey. Folia Entomologica Hungarica, 55, 93 - 215."]}

Empoasca (Matsumurasca) biloba Qin & Zhang, 2008 (Figs 7 ���16, 138, 147, 156, 165) Empoasca (Matsumurasca) biloba Qin & Zhang, 2008: 21 Type locality. Shennongjia, Hubei Prov., China. (NWAFU). Distribution. China (Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan). Remarks. The abdominal apodemes in some specimens reach the 5 th abdominal segment (Fig. 16) while others exceed the 5 th segment (Fig. 15)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with description of three new species from China, pp. 22-42 in Zootaxa 3003 on page 24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207054, {"references":["Qin, D. Z. & Zhang, Y. L. (2008) The leafhopper subgenus Empoasca (Matsumurasca) from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with descriptions of three new species. Z ootaxa, 1817, 18 - 26."]}

Empoasca (Empoasca) kantipurensis Thapa, new record for China Empoasca (Empoasca) kantipurensis Thapa, 1985: 68 Specimens examined. China: 3 3, Sanchahe, Mengyang, Yunnan Prov., 7 June 1991, coll. Rungang Tian, Wanzhi Cai & Yinglun Wang, light (NWAFU). Distribution. China (Yunnan), Nepal (type locality)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3055 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202154, {"references":["Thapa, V. K. (1985). Some empoascan leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from the Kathmandu valley, Nepal. Journal of Entomological Research, 9 (1), 65 - 74."]}

Empoasca (Okubasca) calvata Qin & Liu, sp. nov. (Figs. 7���18) Type materials. Holotype. 3 (NWAFU), China: Zhejiang Province, Gutianshan National Nature Reserve, 17.viii. 2003, coll. Wu Dai, by light trap. Paratypes. 5 3, same data as holotype; 1 3, China: Zhejiang Province, Fengyangshan National Nature Reserve, 10.viii. 2003, coll. Wu Dai, light trap. Description. Length. 3 3.7���3.9mm. General colour yellow. Eyes brown. Pronotum mostly semi-transparent, surrounded with irregular arch of milky patches anteriorly and laterally. Centre of scutellum with quadrate milky patch anteriorly and big patch caudad of scutoscutellar sulcus. Forewing semi-transparent, hindwing greyish white. In some specimens vertex with visible longitudinal narrow stripe on midline, reddish brown. Body robust (Fig. 34). Head narrower and shorter than pronotum (Fig. 31). Vertex roundly produced anteriorly, in dorsal view slightly shorter than width between eyes, anterior and posterior margins not parallel, coronal suture distinct, surpassing half of vertex length (Fig. 31). Face short, convex in lateral view (Fig. 33), lateral frontal suture distinct (Fig. 32), in profile vertex rounded to face (Fig. 33). Pronotum less than 2.0 times longer than vertex in midline (Fig. 31). Forewing narrow, rounded apically, veins RP and MP��� separate at bases, 2 nd apical cell broadening towards apex (Fig. 7). Basal sternal abdominal apodemes parallel-sided, reaching middle of segment IV (Fig. 18). Male pygofer elongate, apical half strongly narrowing caudad, with 4���6 rigid microsetae on each side of lobe (Figs. 9, 11), ventral appendage relatively long, pygofer with 8���9 rigid microsetae at lower margin (Figs. 9, 11); dorsal bridge nearly one third of total length of pygofer, caudodorsally curved medially (Fig. 10). Subgenital plate longer than pygofer side, broadest subbasally and narrowing apicad, curved caudo-dorsad apically, with 13���16 bluntly terminated lateral macrosetae, numerous marginal microsetae on almost whole outer margin of plate and several fine long microsetae arranged in 1���2 rows (Figs. 9, 13). Paramere bearing 5 apical teeth preceded by 6���8 long fine microsetae. Connective lamellate, trapeziform, apical margin notched medially (Fig. 16). Aedeagus with preatrium and dorsal apodeme undeveloped, shaft tubular, in profile broadest near base and strongly narrowing apicad, subbasally provided with minute transverse ribs on dorsal side, curved caudo-dorsad medially, gonopore ventrad at apex, large (Figs. 14, 15). Anal tube process surpassing half height of pygofer, straight and narrowing with pointed apex (Figs. 9, 12). Remarks. E. (O.) calvata differs from other species of this subgenus by the aedeagus shaft with minute transverse ribs near its base (Fig. 14) and lacking lateral teeth (Fig. 15), and the apically straight anal tube appendage (Fig. 12). Etymology. The species name is formed from ��� calvatus ��� (Latin; adjective = naked) referring to the smooth surface near the apex of the aedeagal shaft. Distribution. At present known only from the type locality in southern China (Zhejiang Province)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Okubasca) Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), first record from China and description of two new species, pp. 59-64 in Zootaxa 3101 on pages 61-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203489

Zhang, Ya-Lin, Peng, Ling-Fei, Wang, Ying-Lun (2011): Nivalios gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Flatidae), first record of the tribe Nephesini from China. Zootaxa 2882: 19-26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.206655

Ifugoa media Dworakowska, new record from China (Figs 30���43) Ifugoa media Dworakowska, 1980: 167. Material examined. 2 males, 31 May 1983, 1 male, 30 May 1983, Liangyuan, Hainan Province, coll. Yalin Zhang. Distribution. China (Hainan Province), India., Published as part of Qin, Dao-Zheng, Liu, Yang & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, A taxonomic study of Chinese Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) (III), pp. 30-42 in Zootaxa 3094 on page 36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203357, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1980) On some Typhlocybinae from India (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Entomologische Abhandlungen und Berichte aus dem staatlichen Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden, 43, 151 - 201."]}

Genus Alebroides Matsumura, 1931 Alebroides Matsumura, 1931: 68. Type species: A. marginatus Matsumura, 1931. Empoanara, Mahmood, 1967: 42, nec Distant, 1918. Paolia, Vilbaste, 1968: 80, nec Lower, 1952. For generic diagnosis see Dworakowska (1997). Distribution. China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Henan, Tibet, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Fujian, Hainan, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, India, Sikkim, Nepal, Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Pakistan, Micronesia, Korea, Russia., 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 page 32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203607, {"references":["Matsumura, S. (1931) A revision of the Palaearctic and Oriental Typhlocybid-genera with description of new species and new genera. Insect Matsumurana, 6, 55 - 92.","Mahmood, S. H. (1967), A study of the typhlocybine genera of the Oriental region (Thailand, the Philippines and adjoining areas). Pacific Insect Monograph, 12, 1 - 52.","Distant, W. L. (1918) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, Rhynchota. Vol. VII. Homoptera: Appendix, Heteroptera: Addenda, London: Taylor and Francis, 7, 210 pp.","Vilbaste, J. (1968) Systematic treatise of Cicadas found on the edge of costal regions. Uber die Zikadenfauna des Primorje Gebietes. lzdatel'stvo \" Valgus \", Tallin. 195 pp.","Dworakowska, I. (1997) A review of the genus Alebroides Matsumura, with description of Shumka gen. nov. (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Oriental Insects, 31, 241 - 407."]}

Empoasca (Matsumurasca) schima Thapa, 1985 Empoasca (s. str.) schima Thapa, 1985: 69 Empoasca (Matsumurasca) schima Thapa, Dworakowska, 1994: 104 Type locality. Bhandarkhal, Kathmandu, Nepal. (Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, India). Distribution. Nepal, India (Sikkim). Empoasca (Matsumurasca) spinalis Qin and Liu, sp. nov. (Figs 119 ���127, 146, 155, 164, 173) Type material. Holotype, 3 (NWAFU), China: Mt. Jigong, Henan Prov., 11 Jul. 1997, coll. Jian Hu. Length. 3 3.9 mm. Color. Vertex cyan, with longitudinal creamy patch along coronal suture not reaching anterior margin, between eyes with creamy streak sublaterally at each side of vertex. Eyes brown, ocelli surrounded by creamy patch mesocaudad. Frontoclypeal area yellowish green, centrally with longitudinal creamy patch in basal half; anteclypeus and genae green. Pronotum bearing irregular creamy patches at anterior margin and arcuate area behind eyes; scutellum with quadrate creamy patch antero-mesally and apicad of scutoscutellar sulcus with an irregular creamy patch. Forewing yellowish green, fore- and hindwing subhyaline. Legs yellowish except tarsi and apical half of hind tibia cyan. Abdominal apodemes parallel-sided, rounded apically, surpassing midlength of segment V (Fig. 127). Male pygofer slightly elongated and rounded apically, with about 11 stout setae on each side; ventral pygofer appendage nearly straight, directed dorsocaudad and exceeding caudal margin of pygofer lobe, tapering in apical 1 / 4 to pointed apex (Figs 119, 120). Subgenital plate far exceeding pygofer, prominently broadened at base and triangularly protruded basolaterad, apical 1 / 4 curved dorsocaudad, basal group with 4 long, thick setae, about 23 short marginal microsetae, 22���23 long lateral macrosetae and fine microsetae arranged in 2 irregular rows (Fig. 122). Paramere with 5 apical teeth and 2 relatively big teeth subapically preceeded by about 4���5 setae and few sensory pits (Fig. 126). Aedeagal shaft straight in lateral view, nearly as long as preatrium, broad basally and narrowing terminally, with short spinose process baso-ventrally and 2 teeth on dorsal side, dorsal surface in basal 1 / 3 and ventral surface mostly concave, dorsal apodeme of aedeagus short, in ventral aspect expanded laterad, gonopore ventrad near apex (Figs 123, 124). Connective lamellate, caudal margin incised medially (Fig. 125). Anal tube process curved anteroventrad and gradually tapered to pointed apex (Fig. 121). Female. Unknown. Etymology. The new species name alludes to the spinose process on the aedeagal shaft. Discussion. Empoasca (M.) spinalis sp. nov. is similar to E. (M.) onukii Matsuda, 1952, but differs from the latter by the ventral pygofer appendage being straight (sinuate in E. (M.) onukii), and by the aedeagal shaft armed with a short spinose process baso-ventrally and 2 dorsal teeth (spinose process and teeth absent in E. (M.) onukii)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with description of three new species from China, pp. 22-42 in Zootaxa 3003 on pages 35-36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207054, {"references":["Thapa, V. K. (1985) Some empoascan leafhoppers (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Journal of Entomological Research, 9, 65 - 74.","Dworakowska, I. (1994) Typhlocybinae (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) of Sikkim, a preliminary survey. Folia Entomologica Hungarica, 55, 93 - 215.","Matsuda, R. (1952) A new green Empoasca leafhopper injurious to the tea shrub in Japan. Oyo-Kontyu, 8, 19 - 21."]}

Empoasca (Matsumurasca) diversa Vilbaste, 1968, new record for China (Figs 51 ���67, 142, 151, 160, 169) Empoasca diversa Vilbaste, 1968: 87 Empoasca (Matsumurasca) diversa Vilbaste, Dworakowska, 1971: 505; Dworakowska, 1982: 52 Type locality. Kievka, Maritime Province, Russia. (repository unknown). Specimens examined. China: 17 3, Shenyang, Liaoning Prov., 8 Aug. 2009, coll. Daozheng Qin. Distribution. China (Liaoning), Russian Maritime Territory, Korea. Remarks. Specimens from China have some differences in the aedeagus (Fig. 59) with the shaft longer than in specimens from Korea and the macrosetae on the basal part of the subgenital plate not arranged in a double row (Fig. 58)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with description of three new species from China, pp. 22-42 in Zootaxa 3003 on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207054, {"references":["Vilbaste, J. (1968) Faune cicadovykh Primorskogo kraya, Tallin 180 pp.","Dworakowska, I. (1971) Dayus takagii sp. n. and some other Empoascini (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Sciences Serie des Sciences Biologiques, 19, 501 - 509.","Dworakowska, I. (1982) Empoascini of Japan, Korea and north - east part of China (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Reichenbachia, 20, 33 - 57."]}

Alebroides luteus Sohi & Dworakowska, 1979, new record for China Alebroides luteus Sohi & Dworakowska, 1979: 372; Dworakowska, 1997: 298. Specimen examined. China: 13, Sanchahe, Mengyang, Yunnan Province, 20 Dec. 1999, 950 m, coll. I. Dworakowska (NWAFU). Distribution. China (Yunnan), India., 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 page 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203607, {"references":["Sohi, A. S. & Dworakowska, I. (1979) New species of Alebroides Matsumura from India and Tibet (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Entomon, 4, 367 - 372.","Dworakowska, I. (1997) A review of the genus Alebroides Matsumura, with description of Shumka gen. nov. (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Oriental Insects, 31, 241 - 407."]}

Empoasca (Empoasca) Walsh, 1862 Empoasca (Empoasca) Walsh, 1862: 149 Type species. Empoasca fabae (Harris, 1841) (The type species was originally listed as Empoasca viridescens Walsh, 1862, a junior synonym of E. fabae). The first use of subgenera in Empoasca was by DeLong (1931), but he did not recognize subgenera in his many subsequent papers on the genus. For a subgeneric diagnosis see Zhang et al. (2008). Distribution. Oriental Region, Palaearctic Region, Nearctic Region, Afrotropical Region and Australian Region., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3055 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202154, {"references":["Walsh, B. D. (1862). Fire blight. Two new foes of the apple and pear. Prairie Farmer. (N. S.). 10, 147 - 149."]}

Alebroides parafuscus, n. sp. (Figs 1 ��� 12) Type material. Holotype: 3, Gaoligongshan, Tengchong, Yunnan Province, China, 26 Nov. 1999, 1980 m, coll. I. Dworakowska (NWAFU). Paratypes: 73 4 ��, same data as holotype; 13 4 ��, 2000 m, coll. Daozheng Qin, other data same as holotype; 13, Longchuan, Husa, Yunnan Province, China, 1430 m, 29 Apr. 1981, coll. Fasheng Li; 13 1 ��, Qiujiaba, Wenxian, Gansu Province, China, 2140 m, 3 Jul. 2001; 13, Yanggashan, 2000 m, 3 Jul. 2001; 3 ��, Liziba, Wenxian, Gansu Province, China, 1700 m, coll. Qiang Sun (13 in CAU, rest in NWAFU). Length: male 3.9���4.3 mm, female 4.0���4.2 mm. Ground colour of body reddish brown. Vertex yellow posteriorly, gradually suffused with reddish orange anteriorly, or sometimes almost entirely reddish orange; borders at eyes yellow; ocelli greyish surrounded with whitish yellow; coronal suture reddish brown. Frontoclypeus orange except basal part reddish orange, anteclypeus light orange, in some specimens frontoclypeus and anteclypeus entirely orange except base of frontoclypeus reddish orange; genae, anteocular areas and antennal bases whitish. Pronotum mostly orange brownish, surrounded with irregular arch of patches along anterior margin in addition to three sordid creamy patches. Scutellum centrally with a broad sordid cream stripe, basal angles brownish orange, scutoscutellar sulcus black. Forewing hyaline, costal margin, wax field and most of part of vein c and cell c tan. Thorax and legs beige except 1 st tibia and tarsus brown. Abdomen blackish brown, laterally sordid yellow sprinkled with irregular blackish brown patches and spots on sternites. Female abdomen sordid brownish ventrally, ovipositor sordid brown to brown ochre. Abdominal apodemes reaching end of segment 6 (Fig. 12). Male Pygofer elongate, caudal 1 / 3 narrowed, terminally rounded with about 10 rigid setae, anterior margin sinuate (Fig. 5); ventral appendage narrow and nearly parallel sided, slightly sinuate over whole length with indistinct ledge marking elongate apical area (Figs 5, 6). Subgenital plate in profile long, basal 1 / 3 broad and nearly parallel sided, gradually tapering apicad dorsally, with 3���5 setae in basal group, about 25 marginal microsetae, 22 lateral macrosetae and several long fine setae in 2���3 rows (Figs 5, 7). Paramere broad, apically with short and compact dentifer bearing 5���6 teeth, 2���3 setae and 5���7 sensory pits below (Fig. 8). Aedeagal shaft declined at almost right angle from preatrium, in profile nearly same width over whole length, curved upwards with notched apex, gonopore apical on dorsal surface; atrial rim scoop like laterally with pair of short laterally curved processes caudo-ventrally (Figs 9, 10). Connective broad, apical margin deeply emarginate medially (Fig. 11). Anal tube process long, reaching further basad than half height of pygofer, sinuate and tapering to acute apex (Figs 5, 9). Etymology. The name refers to the similarity of the new species to A. fuscus Dworakowska. Diagnosis. Alebroides parafuscus n. sp. is a member of the A. fuscus species group based on the following combination of characters: anal tube process reaching further basad than half the height of pygofer (Fig. 5); subgenital plate gradually tapering apicad (Fig. 7); paramere with short dentifer (Fig. 8); connective broad (Fig. 11); aedeagal shaft declined from preatrium, the latter scoop like laterally, gonopore dorsal (Fig. 9). It differs from A. fuscus by: pygofer with caudal 1 / 3 narrowed and terminally rounded with anterior margin sinuate (Fig. 5); abdodminal apodemes reaching end of segment 6 (Fig. 12); anal tube process sinuate towards apex (Figs 5, 9); aedeagus with paired atrial processes curved and separate from the aedeagal shaft in caudal view (Figs 9, 10)., 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 page 33, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203607

Empoasca (Empoasca Walsh): Empoasca (Empoasca) affinis Nast, 1937 — China (Xinjiang), India, Poland, Bavaria, Frisian Islands. Empoasca (Empoasca) albipennis Dworakowska, 1977 — China (Yunnan), Vietnam. Empoasca (Empoasca) alinka Dworakowska, 1981 — China (Hainan), India. Empoasca (Empoasca) altaica Vilbaste, 1965 — China (Henan), Russia, Mongolia, Korea. Empoasca (Empoasca) amasa Dworakowska, 1984 — China (Hainan, Yunnan), Malaysia. Empoasca (Empoasca) ariadnae Dworakowska, 1968 — China (Shaanxi, Yunnan, Hunan, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang), Korea. Empoasca (Empoasca) cisiana Dworakowska, 1971 — China (Guangdong). Empoasca (Empoasca) dendritica Liu & Qin, 2011 — China (Yunnan). Empoasca (Empoasca) fabae (Harris, 1841) — China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Shaanxi), North America, South America. Empoasca (Empoasca) flavescens (Fabricius, 1794) — China (Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Fujian, Guangxi, Taiwan, Guangdong, Tibet), Russia, Korea, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, Africa, Europe, North America. Empoasca (Empoasca) fletcheri Dworakowska, 1984 — China (Hainan), Malaysia, Burma. Empoasca (Empoasca) furcata Vilbaste, 1968 — China (Shaanxi), Japan, Korea. Empoasca (Empoasca) gucia Dworakowska, 1977 — China (Hainan), Vietnam. Empoasca (Empoasca) hiromichii (Matsumura, 1931) — China (Zhejiang, Jiangsu), Japan. Empoasca (Empoasca) interrupta Dworakowska, 1976 — China (Hainan, Guangdong, Yunnan), Indonesia. Empoasca (Empoasca) jigongshana Cai & Shen, 1999 — China (Henan). Empoasca (Empoasca) kaicola Dworakowska, 1982 — China (Henan). Empoasca (Empoasca) kantipurensis Thapa, 1985 — China (Yunnan), Nepal. Empoasca (Empoasca) kudlata Dworakowska, 1981 — China (Hainan), India. Empoasca (Empoasca) limbifera (Matsumura, 1931) — China (Henan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Guizhou, Anhui, Guangxi, Hubei, Yunnan), Japan. Empoasca (Empoasca) lipcowa Dworakowska, 1982 — China (Fujian). Empoasca (Empoasca) longa Liu & Zhang, 2011 — China (Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangxi). Empoasca (Empoasca) lutowa Dworakowska, 1971 — China (Shaanxi), Korea. Empoasca (Empoasca) majowa Dworakowska, 1981 — China (Guangdong, Yunnan), Vietnam. Empoasca (Empoasca) matsudai Dworakowska, 1972 — China (Henan), Japan, Korea. Empoasca (Empoasca) megalophylla Liu & Qin, 2011 — China (Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hainan). Empoasca (Empoasca) mochidai Dworakowska, 1972 — China (Jiangsu), Japan. Empoasca (Empoasca) mona Dworakowska, 1994 — China (Yunnan), India (Sikkim). Empoasca (Empoasca) motti Singh Pruthi, 1940 — China (Yunnan), India, Nepal. Empoasca (Empoasca) paragucia Liu & Fletcher, 2011 — China (Yunnan). Empoasca (Empoasca) paraparvipenis Zhang and Liu, 2008 — China (Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan). Empoasca (Empoasca) parvipenis Dworakowska, 1994 — China (Yunnan), India (Sikkim). Empoasca (Empoasca) polyprocessa Liu & Fletcher, 2011 — China (Fujian, Hunan, Hainan). Empoasca (Empoasca) profusa Ahmed & Samad, 1972 — China (Hainan), Pakistan. Empoasca (Empoasca) reducta Dworakowska, 1976 — China (Taiwan), Vietnam. Empoasca (Empoasca) rybiogon Dworakowska, 1971 — China (Zhejiang, Jiangsu), Korea. Empoasca (Empoasca) shokella (Matsumura, 1931) — China (Taiwan). Empoasca (Empoasca) simbava Dworakowska, 1981 — China (Yunnan), India. Empoasca (Empoasca) spirosa Dworakowska & Viraktamath, 1979 — China (Hainan), India, Sri Lanka. Empoasca (Empoasca) tanova Dworakowska, 1980 — China (Yunnan, Guangdong), India. Empoasca (Empoasca) todo (Matsumura, 1931) — China (Guizhou), Japan, Russia. Empoasca (Empoasca) undulata Liu & Zhang, 2011 — China (Hunan). Empoasca (Empoasca) uniprossicae Sohi, 1977 — China (Sichuan), India. Empoasca (Empoasca) vickiae Liu & Fletcher, 2011 — China (Hainan). Empoasca (Empoasca) vietnamica Dworakowska, 1972 — China (Guangdong), Vitenam Empoasca (Empoasca) vitis (Goethe, 1875) — China (Fujian, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Zhejiang, Henan, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunan, Guizhou, Hainan), Japan. Empoasca (Empoasca) yanhuang Kuoh, 1981 — China (Tibet). Empoasca (Matsumurasca Anufriev): Empoasca (Matsumurasca) biloba Qin & Zhang, 2008 — China (Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan). Empoasca (Matsumurasca) biprocessa Qin & Liu, 2011 — China (Yunnan). Empoasca (Matsumurasca) clypealata Qin & Zhang, 2008 — China (Yunnan). Empoasca (Matsumurasca) dentalis Qin & Liu, 2011 — China (Hunan). Empoasca (Matsumurasca) diversa Vilbaste, 1968 — China (Liaoning), Soviet Maritime Territory, Korea. Empoasca (Matsumurasca) onukii Matsuda, 1952 — China (Zhejiang, Hainan, Hunan, Sichuan, Fujian, Yunnan, Henan, Gansu, Hebei), Japan, Vietnam. Empoasca (Matsumurasca) parvifacia Dworakowska, 1994 — China (Shaanxi, Yunnan), India (Sikkim). Empoasca (Matsumurasca) quadrialata Qin & Zhang, 2008 — China (Sichuan, Yunnan). Empoasca (Matsumurasca) spinalis Qin & Liu, 2011 — China (Henan).

Alebroides rubicundus Ishihara, 1953 Alebroides rubicundus Ishihara, 1953: 28; Dworakowska, 1997: 311. Alebroides aurantinus Cai & Shen, 1999: 12. syn. n. Specimen examined. China: 13, Jigongshan, Xinyang, Henan Province, 12 Jul. 1997, coll. Jian Hu (NWAFU). Distribution. China (Henan), Japan. Remarks. Cai & Shen (1999) reported Alebroides aurantinus from Jigongshan, Xinyang, Henan Province based on a single male collected on July 12, 1997. Another male of the same species is in the Entomological museum of NWAFU with the same collecting data. As this specimen is identical to A. rubicundus which was described and figured based on a male paratype by Dworakowska (1997), the two taxa are here synonymized., 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 page 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203607, {"references":["Ishihara, T. (1953) A tentative checklist of the superfamily Cicadelloidea of Japan. The scientific reports of the Matsuyama agricultural College, 11, 1 - 72.","Dworakowska, I. (1997) A review of the genus Alebroides Matsumura, with description of Shumka gen. nov. (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Oriental Insects, 31, 241 - 407.","Cai, P. & Shen X. C. (1999) Two new species of Cicadellidae from Mt. Jigong (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The fauna and taxonomy of insects in Henan. Vol. 3. Insects of the Jigong mountains region. China Agricultural Scientech Press. 11 - 13."]}

Empoasca (Empoasca) majowa Dworakowska, new record for China Empoasca majowa Dworakowska, 1972: 22 Empoasca (Empoasca) majowa Dworakowska, 1981: 155 Specimens examined. 11 3, Yuexiu, Guangzhou, Guangdong Prov., 15 July 1985; 1 3, 18 July 1985, 1 3, 20 July 1983, Mt. Dinghu, Zhaoqing, Guangdong Prov., coll. Yalin Zhang, light; 1 3, Mt. Nangong, Mengla, Yunnan Prov., 13 December 1999, 1150m, coll. Daozheng Qin; 3 3, Jianfengling, Hainan Prov., 5 May 2005, 980m, coll. Qiulei Men (all in NWAFU). Distribution. China (Guangdong, Yunnan), Vietnam (type locality)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3055 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202154, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1972) On some East Asiatic species of the genus Empoasca Walsh (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Sciences Cl II Serie des Sciences biologiques, 20 (1), 17 - 24.","Dworakowska, I. (1981) On some Typhlocybinae from India, Sri Lanka and Nepal (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Entomologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunda Dresden, 44 (8), 153 - 202."]}

Ghauriana Thapa Ghauriana Thapa, 1985: 65. Type species. Ghauriana pecularia Thapa, 1985, by monotypy. Distribution. China (Guangxi, Yunnan), Nepal., Published as part of Qin, Dao-Zheng, Liu, Yang & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, A taxonomic study of Chinese Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) (II), pp. 48-58 in Zootaxa 2923 on page 56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277935, {"references":["Thapa, V. K. (1985) Some empoascan leafhoppers (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from the Kathmandu valley, Nepal, Journal of Entomological Research, 9, 65 - 74."]}

Bhatasca Dworakowska Bhatasca Dworakowska, 1995: 143. Type species. Bhatasca expansa Dworakowska, 1995, by monotypy. Distribution. China (Hunan, Henan, Gansu, Sichuan, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Taiwan)., Published as part of Qin, Dao-Zheng, Liu, Yang & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, A taxonomic study of Chinese Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) (II), pp. 48-58 in Zootaxa 2923 on page 54, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277935, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1995) Szara gen. nov. and some other Oriental Empoascini (Insecta: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Entomologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde Dresden, 56, 129 - 160."]}

Alebroides muzitaneus, n. sp. (Figs 13 ��� 26) Type material. Holotype: 3, Tianpingshan, Sangzhi, Hunan Province, China, 13 Aug. 2001, 1250 m, coll. Qiang Sun, by lamp dome (NWAFU). Paratypes: 13, same data as holotype; 23, Dayaoshan, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China, 9 Sept. 2000, coll. Zhenjiang Liu, Xiangqun Yuan and Zhongli Sha; 13, Emeishan, Sichuan Province, China, 29 Oct. 1999, 700��� 900 m, coll. Daozheng Qin (NWAFU). Length: male 3.6���3.8 mm. Ground colour of body yellowish beige. Vertex with large creamy patches surrounding ocelli caudomesad. Face and basal antennal segments yellowish. Eyes blackish. Pronotum mostly yellow, surrounded by irregular arc of light hypodermal pattern in addition to large median creamy patch along anterior margin; scutoscutellar sulcus brownish, below with a large creamy patch. Thorax and legs whitish yellow except 1 st tibia and tarsus yellow. Forewing hyaline. Abdomen yellow. The specimen collected in Sichuan Province has the following differences: ground colour sordid beige. Vertex yellowish orange, coronal suture blackish brown. Frontoclypeus and anteclypeus yellow, genae and antennal bases whitish yellow. Pronotum mostly sordid beige, irregular arch of hypodermal pattern light yellow with three creamy patches along anterior margin. Scutoscutellar sulcus dark. Dorsum of abdomen blackish, laterally sordid yellowish with sordid brownish patch at each tergite, ventrally with each sternite with a sordid brownish spot laterally. Abdominal apodemes reaching end of segment 5 (Fig. 26). Male genitalia: Pygofer anteriorly almost straight except strongly constricted ventral margin anteriorly, with about 10 rigid setae terminally on outside and inside of lobe (Fig. 17); ventral appendage slightly s-shaped, apex curved caudo-ventrad and subapically adorned with small teeth ventrally (Figs 18, 19). Subgenital plate in lateral view parallel sided at basal 1 / 4 and gradually narrowing apicad, with 3���4 setae in basal group, ca. 22���25 marginal microsetae, 22 lateral macrosetae; and several long fine lateral setae in 2���3 rows (Figs 17, 20). Paramere slim caudally, with slightly elongate dentifer bearing 3���4 teeth, 1��� 2 setae and 4���5 sensory pits arranged linearly below (Fig. 21). Aedeagal shaft in profile elongate, apical part curved cephald and slightly expanded subapically, basally with a strongly laterally expanded protrusion with numerous small teeth on anterior and lateral margins (Figs 22, 23). Connective narrow, lateral margins almost straight, apical margin deeply emarginated medially (Fig. 24). Anal tube process evenly curved and gradually tapered to acute apex, at its base has a triangular branch directed ventrad (Figs 17, 25). Etymology. The specific name is an arbitary combination of letters. Diagnosis. Alebroides muzitaneus n. sp. is assigned to the A. soror species group based on the following combination of characters: body light coloured; ventral pygofer appendage long, subapically adorned with small teeth ventrally (Figs 18, 19); caudal part of paramere slim (Fig. 21); connective narrow (Fig. 24); aedeagal shaft with apical part curved cephald in profile and and slightly expanded subapically, with a basal protrusion strongly expanded laterad (Figs 22, 23); anal tube process has additional branch at base (Figs 17, 25); abdodminal apodemes not exceeding segment 5 (Fig. 26). It differs from other species of this group by: lobate branch situated at base of anal tube process (Figs 17, 25) and basolateral expanded protrusion of the shaft with numerous small teeth on anterior and lateral margins (Fig. 23)., 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 35-36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203607

Empoasca (Empoasca) interrupta Dworakowska, new record for China Empoasca (Empoasca) interrupta Dworakowska, 1976: 24 Specimens examined. 3 3, Xinglong, Hainan Prov., 28 April 1983, 3 3, Lingshui, Hainan Prov., 9 May 1983; all coll. Yalin Zhang; 2 3, Jianfengling, Hainan Prov., 19 August 1983; 1 3, Mt. Dinghu, Zhaoqing, Guangdong Prov., 17 June 1983, coll. Yalin Zhang, light; 1 3, Menglun, Yunnan Prov., 9 December 1999, 570m, coll. Dworakowska (all in NWAFU). Distribution. China (Hainan, Guangdong, Yunnan), Indonesia (type locality)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3055 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202154, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1976) On some Oriental and Ethiopian Typhlocybinae (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Reichenbachia, 16 (1), 1 - 51."]}

Goifa Dworakowska Goifa Dworakowska, 1977: 18. Type species. Goifa fasciata Dworakowska, 1977, by original designation. Redescription. Small, ivory, light testaceous to lemon yellow empoascines. Head narrower and longer than pronotum (Fig. 15). Vertex in dorsal view nearly equal to or longer than width between eyes, anterior margin produced medially (Fig. 15), profile of vertex transition curved evenly into convex and distinctly elongated face (Figs 16, 17), coronal suture long and distinct (Fig. 15), lateral frontal suture present (Fig. 17). Eyes very large (Figs 15���17). Forewing narrow, 3 apical veins arise from longitudinal m cell, 3 rd apical cell petiolate, 2 nd apical cell broadened apically, r cell reduced in size, c and r cells narrower than m and cua cells (Fig. 18); hindwing with area bordered by vannal veins small, vein CuA unbranched apically (Fig. 19). Abdodminal tergal apodemes well developed with tips widely divergent posteriorly (Fig. 29). Male pygofer elongate, strongly narrowing caudad, with rigid microsetae at apex of lobe, dorsal margin produced with lobe usually adorned with one dorsal macroseta at base, ventral appendage absent (Figs 20, 22); dorsal bridge quite long (Fig. 21). Subgenital plate much exceeding pygofer side, slim, caudal half gradually narrowing to rounded apex, ventral margin almost straight or slightly sinuate, setae in basal group not identifiable, marginal row of microsetae short and laterally with one row of thick setae on disc followed by one normal thick macrosetae at apex of plate, with additional row of gracile microsetae near ventral margin (Figs 23, 24). Paramere serrate apically, with setae and sensory pits basad of serrations, or bifurcated apically with long fine setae near base (Figs 27, 28). Connective fused with base of aedeagus (Figs 25, 26). Aedeagus with large preatrium, dorsal apodeme absent, shaft tubular, with paired processes or not, gonopore subapical (Figs 25, 26). Anal tube process simple, tapered (Fig. 20). Remarks. Goifa was established by Dworakowska (1977) with G. fasciata as the type species from Vietnam. Dworakowska (1980) and Mann & Sohi (1988, 1993) added three more species thereafter (G. rotundata Dworakowska 1980, G. forcipita Mann & Sohi 1988, G. aprocessa Mann & Sohi 1993). Thus, four species of the genus have been reported to date, all distributed in the Oriental Region. In this paper, we report the genus for the first time from China, transfer Paolia tangailensis Ahmed & Samad (1972) from Paolia Lower (1952) (=Dialecticoteryx Kirkaldy 1907) to Goifa as a new combination and synonymize G. aprocessa Mann & Sohi (1993) with G. tangailensis (Ahmed & Samad, 1972). In the Usharia group, Goifa is related to Dayus and Baguoidea by the forewing with 3 apical veins which all arise from the longitudinal m cell, sternal abdominal apodemes with tips widely divergent posteriorly, the connective fused with the base of the aedeagus and the hindwing with CuA unbranched. However, it differs from both genera in having the head narrower and longer than pronotum, the r cell in the forewing reduced in size, the ventral pygofer appendage absent, and the subgenital plate lacking setae in the basal group but with fine microsetae laterally on the disc and a row of gracile microsetae near the ventral margin. Included taxa: G. fasciata Dworakowska (1977), G. rotundata Dworakowska (1980), G. forcipita Mann & Sohi (1988) and G. tangailensis (Ahmed & Samad, 1972), n. comb. Distribution. China (Yunnan and Hainan Provinces), Vietnam, Pakistan, India., Published as part of Qin, Dao-Zheng, Liu, Yang & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, A taxonomic study of Chinese Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) (III), pp. 30-42 in Zootaxa 3094 on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203357, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1977) On some Typhlocybinae from Vietnam (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Folia Entomologica Hungarica, 30, 9 - 47.","Dworakowska, I. (1980) On some Typhlocybinae from India (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Entomologische Abhandlungen und Berichte aus dem staatlichen Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden, 43, 151 - 201.","Mann, J. S. & Sohi, A. S. (1988) A new species of the genus Goifa Dworakowska (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) from India. Journal of Insect Science, 1, 8 - 11.","Mann, J. S. & Sohi, A. S. (1993) A new species of the genus Goifa Dworakowska (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) from northern India. Journal of Insect Science, 6, 97 - 98.","Ahmed, M. & Samad, K. (1972) Some new additions to the typhlocybine fauna of East Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Science and Industrial Research, 15, 285 - 290.","Lower, H. F. (1952) A revision of Australian species previously referred to the genus Empoasca (Cicadellidae, Homoptera). Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales, 76, 190 - 221."]}

Homa sinensis Qin & Zhang, sp. n. (Figs 1–14) Type material. Holotype, male, 15 Dec. 1999, Bubeng, Mengla, Yunnan Province, coll. I. Dworakowska (NWAFU). Paratypes. 1 male, 17 Dec. 1999, Mt. Nangong, Mengla, Yunnan Province, coll. Daozheng Qin; 1 male, 5 Dec. 1999, Jinghong, Yunnan Province, coll. Daozheng Qin. Description. Body size. male 3.8–4.0 mm. Ground color red. Vertex with two irregular grayish black patches near apex. Eyes grayish, ocelli surrounded by whitish patches antero-laterad. Face red basally; apical portion of frontoclypeus, anetclypeus and genae reddishyellow. Pronotum with irregular arch of patches anteriorly and laterally, with or without whitish semicircular patch in middle. Scutellum with 3 triangular creamy patches anteriorly and large yellow patch caudad of scutoscutellar sulcus. Forewing with the red transverse band fairly broad, apical 1 / 3 yellowish and subtransparent. Dorsum of abdomen tan, venter orange yellow. Legs yellow. Abdodminal sternal apodemes reaching to end of segment 3 (Fig. 14). Male pygofer lobe terminally bearing 8- 11 rigid setae, dorsal lobe-like structure rounded, directed dorsocaudad (Figs 6, 8). Subgenital plates well sclerotized and pigmented apically, 5 terminally truncated macrosetae of basal group densely grouped and restricted to end of caudal protrusion in basal 1 / 3, plate strongly narrowing in apical 2 / 3, dorsal margin distinctly sinuate, near middle provided with 4-5 long and terminally truncated marginal macrosetae, 6 lateral macrosetae large and scattered terminally, not reaching apex of plate, basal 3 bluntly terminated and apical 3 somewhat pointed (Figs 6, 10), fine microsetae absent, ventral margin of plate sinuate and bent caudodorsad in apical third. Paramere bearing 4 apical teeth preceded by about 5 setae and few sensory pits (Figs 6, 13). Aedeagal shaft with two long asymmetrical processes at apex, curved and directed basolaterad in dorsal view; pair of short, angulate lateral projections near apical 2 / 5 of shaft, distad of gonopore; gonopore dorsal in basal third (Figs 11, 12). Anal tube process nearly reaching ventral margin of pygofer, strongly tapered and curved anteriad (Figs 6, 9). Remarks. This new species is similar to Homa katoi Dworakowska, 1984, but differs in having the aedeagal shaft in dorsal view not curved to left apically and the apical processes nearly equal in length; the subgenital plates with 5 terminally truncated macrosetae in basal group, fine microsetae absent, and the dorsal margin of the plate distinctly sinuate and with 4-5 long, truncate macrosetae near the middle. Etymology. The specific epithet indicates the locality of the type material (China).

Ifugoa mikra Dworakowska & Pawar, new record from China (Figs 44���56) Ifugoa mikra Dworakowska & Pawar, 1974: 587. Material examined. 2 males, 25 May 1983, Bawangling, Hainan Province, coll. Yalin Zhang, by light trap, 1 male, 4 Jun. 1983, coll. Yalin Zhang. Distribution. China (Hainan Province), Philippines., Published as part of Qin, Dao-Zheng, Liu, Yang & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, A taxonomic study of Chinese Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) (III), pp. 30-42 in Zootaxa 3094 on page 36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203357, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. & Pawar, A. D. (1974) Six new Oriental species of Typhlocybinae (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Science. Serie des Sciences Biologiques, 22, 583 - 590."]}

Empoasca (Empoasca) gucia Dworakowska, new record for China Empoasca gucia Dworakowska, 1977: 22 Specimens examined. 3 3, Liangyuan, Hainan Prov., 30 May 1983, coll. Yalin Zhang (NWAFU). Distribution. China (Hainan), Vietnam (type locality)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3055 on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202154

Empoasca (Matsumurasca) latissima Dworakowska, 1994 (Figs 72���77) Empoasca (Matsumurasca) latissima Dworakowska, 1994: 103 Type locality. Rumtek, Sikkim, India. (SMTD). Distribution. India (Sikkim)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with description of three new species from China, pp. 22-42 in Zootaxa 3003 on page 30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207054, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1994) Typhlocybinae (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) of Sikkim, a preliminary survey. Folia Entomologica Hungarica, 55, 93 - 215."]}

Empoasca (Matsumurasca) clypealata Qin & Zhang, nom. nov. (Figs 26 ���34, 140, 149, 158, 167) Empoasca (Matsumurasca) clypeata Qin & Zhang, 2008: 20, preoccupied by E. clypeata Gillette and Baker, 1895. Type locality. Dahaoping, Tengchong, Yunnan Prov., China. (NWAFU). Other specimens examined. China: 1 3 Dahaoping, Tengchong, Yunnan Prov., 26 Nov. 1999, 1950���2000 m, coll. Irena Dworakowska; 1 3, Mt. Taibao, Yunnan Prov., 20 Nov. 1999, 1900 m; 2 3, Dahaoping, Tengchong, Yunnan Prov., 24 Nov. 1999, 2000 m; 1 3, Jindian, Kunming, Yunnan Prov., 2 Jan. 2000, all coll. Daozheng Qin. Distribution. China (Yunnan). Remarks. The species E. (M.) clypeata Qin & Zhang (2008) is pre-occupied by Empoasca clypeata Gillette and Baker (1895). The latter was moved to the subgenus Empoasca (Kybos), by De Long (1931) and this has been accepted by most subsequent workers. Because E. clypeata Gillette and Baker (1895) was validly published earlier, E. (M.) clypeata Qin & Zhang 2008 is a junior homonym according to Art. 57.2 and Art. 57.4 (ICZN 4 th edition, 2000) (Dr Sterling Southern, pers. comm. 2010). Etymology. The replacement name is an adjective derived from the Latin word ��� clypealatus ��� also refers to the peculiar clypellus of this species., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with description of three new species from China, pp. 22-42 in Zootaxa 3003 on pages 26-27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207054, {"references":["Qin, D. Z. & Zhang, Y. L. (2008) The leafhopper subgenus Empoasca (Matsumurasca) from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with descriptions of three new species. Z ootaxa, 1817, 18 - 26."]}

Schizandrasca ussurica (Vilbaste, 1968), new record from China (Figs 57���70) Alebroides ussurica Vilbaste, 1968: 73. Schizandrasca ussurica, Anufriev, 1972: 36; Lee, 1979: 559; Dworakowska, 1982: 54. Material examined. 1 male, 27 Jul. 2001, Shenlongjia, Hubei Province, coll. Min Huang & Guiling Zhang; 1 male, 22 Jul. 2000, Huoditang, Shaanxi Province, coll. Zhenjiang Liu & Wu Dai; 1 male, Mt. Taibai, Shaanxi Province, 14 Aug. 1998, coll. Jian Hu, by light trap; 2 males 4 females, Huoditang, Ningshan County, Shaanxi Province, coll. Lin Lu. Distribution. China (Hubei and Shaanxi Provinces), Far East of Russia, Korea., Published as part of Qin, Dao-Zheng, Liu, Yang & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, A taxonomic study of Chinese Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) (III), pp. 30-42 in Zootaxa 3094 on page 39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203357, {"references":["Vilbaste, J. (1968) Systematic treatise of Cicadas found on the edge of the coastal regions. Uber die Zikadenfauna des Primorje Gebietes. Izdatel'stvo \" Valgus \", Tallin. 195 pp.","Anufriev, G. A. (1972) New and little known Palaearctic genera and species of Typhlocybinae (Homoptera, Cicadellidae) Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Science. Serie des Sciences Biologiques, 20, 35 - 42.","Lee, C. E. (1979). Illustrated flora and fauna of Korea. 23. Insecta. 7. Hemiptera: Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha. Seoul: Samhwa. 1070 pp.","Dworakowska, I. (1982) Empoascini of Japan, Korea and north-east part of China (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Reichenbachia, 20, 33 - 57."]}

Empoasca (Empoasca) tanova Dworakowska, new record for China Empoasca (Empoasca) tanova Dworakowska, 1980: 159 Specimens examined. China: 1 3, Munai, Yunnan Prov., 2 December 1999, 1100m, coll. I. Dworakowska; 1 3, Sanchahe, Yunnan Prov., 20 November 1999, 950m, coll. I. Dworakowska; 2 3, Jinghong, Yunnan Prov., 24 October 1987, coll. Yonghui Chai; 3 3, Tengchong, Yunnan Prov., 5 August 2005, 2173m, coll. Meng Li; 4 3, Tengchong, Yunnan Prov., 13���14 August 2005, 1930m, coll. Meixia Yang; 2 3, Tengchong, Yunnan Prov., 16 August 2005, 1700m, coll. Meng Li; 2 3, Mt. Dinghu, Guangdong Prov., 18 July 1985, coll. Yalin Zhang (NWAFU). Distribution. China (Yunnan, Guangdong), India (type locality)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3055 on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202154, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1980) On some Typhlocybinae from India (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Entomologische Abhandlungen, 43 (8), 151 - 201."]}

Empoasca (Empoasca) megalophylla Qin & Liu, sp. nov. (Figs. 28���35; 85���88) Type materials. China: holotype: 3, Wuzhifeng (26 �� 21 ��� 34 ��� N, 114 �� 13 ��� 17 ��� E), Suichuan, Jiangxi Prov., 11 August 2004, 760m, coll. Cong Wei & Meixia Yang; paratypes: 3 3, same data with holotype; 2 3, Wuzhifeng, Suichuan, Jiangxi Prov., 13 August 2004, 760m, coll. Cong Wei & Meixia Yang; 1 3, Wuzhifeng, Suichuan, Jiangxi Prov., 10 August 2004, 760m, coll. Cong Wei & Meixia Yang; 9 3, Yuexiu Park, Guangzhou, Guangdong Prov., 15 July 1985, coll. Yalin Zhang; 1 3, Bawangling, Hainan Prov., 25 May 1983, coll. Yalin Zhang (all in NWAFU). Length: 3 2.3 mm. Ground color of body green (fig. 88). Crown with light green patch distinctly on each side of coronal suture (fig. 85). Eyes black. Pronotum with irregular light green patches on anterior margin of pronotum and under eyes. Forewing and hindwing semitransparent. Abdomen yellow. Legs light yellow to green (fig. 87). Ventral abdominal apodemes subparallel-sided, reaching segment 5 (fig. 33). Pygofer with short dorso-apical lobe curved mediad, ornamented with 16���17 rigid setae distributed from outer to inner face of pygofer; pygofer appendage not exceeding pygofer margin, nearly straight, tapering to apex (fig. 28). Anal appendage stout, swollen distinctly in sub-apical part, narrowing to apex (fig. 32). Subgenital plate in lateral view curved gradually caudodorsad apically, expanded apically; with numerous macrosetae and fine setae somewhat irregularly arranged; dorsolateral margin with 4���5 long stout setae subbasally and 26���27 short microsetae cover apical 2 / 3 (fig. 35). Paramere with 3 teeth on dentifer, 8���9 setae subapically (fig. 34). Connective broad, anterior margin medially emarginate, strongly sclerotized along mid-line but without obvious dorsal keel (fig. 29). Aedeagus shaft well sclerotized, provided with two short distally projecting appendages at apex; another pair of processes arising from preatrium on ventral side; aedeagus shaft compressed laterally and with prominent crest at ventral margin (figs. 30, 31). Gonopore terminal. Etymology. The species name is derived from ��� megalo ��� = large + ��� phylla ��� = leaf, which refers to the shape of the aedeagal shaft in lateral view. Distribution. China (Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hainan). Diagnosis. The new species is similar to Empoasca simbava Dworakowska, 1981, but differs in having the shaft a little thicker in lateral view, and the pygofer appendage not exceeding the pygofer margin, nearly straight, and tapering to the apex., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3055 on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202154, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1981) On some Typhlocybinae from India, Sri Lanka and Nepal (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Entomologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunda Dresden, 44 (8), 153 - 202."]}

Alebroides similis Dworakowska, 1977 Alebroides similis Dworakowska, 1977 b: 13; Chou & Zhang 1987: 296; Zhang, 1990: 133; Dworakowska, 1997: 266. Speimens examined. China: 13, campus of NMAFU, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, Sept. 1982; 13, Louguantai, Zhouzhi, Shaanxi Province, 5 Nov. 1983, coll. Yalin Zhang; 23, Taibaishan, Shaanxi Province, 2300 m, coll. group of insect survey for Taibaishan.; 63, Huashan, Shaanxi Province, 30 Sept. 1983, coll. Xiaolin Lu; 63 6 ��, Qinling Railway Station, Shaanxi Province, 1 Oct. 1980, coll. Sumei Wang; 13, Qinling Railway Station, Shaanxi Province, 1 Oct. 1980, coll. Sumei Wang; 43, 21 Jun. 1980; 23 2 ��, 17 Jun. 1980, Yan���an, Shaanxi Province, coll. Ning Ma; 63 6 ��, Jinghong, Yunnan Province, 24 May 1987, coll. Yonghui Chai; 1 ��, Wenquan, Kunming, Yunnan Province, 24 Mar. 1981, coll. Io Zhou, Mingtang Liu & Jingruo Zhou; 1 ��, Kunming, Yunnan Province, 5���6 Jul. 1974. 1900 m, coll. Io Chou & Feng Yuan; 63 7 ��, Dali, Yunnan Province, 11 Nov. 1999, 2000 m; 13 1 ��, 25 Nov. 1999, 2000 m; 13, 22 Nov. 1999, 1660 m; 23, 26 Nov. 1999, 2000 m; 13, 20 Nov. 1999, 1660 m, Gaoligongshan, Tangchong, Yunnan Province; 13, Zixishan, Chuxiong, Yunnan Province, 14 Nov. 1999, 2400 m; 13 1 ��, 20 Nov. 1999, 1750 m; 13, 19 Nov. 1999, 1700 m, Taibaoshan, Baoshan, Yunnan Province; 43, Mengyang, Yunnan Province, 19 Dec. 1999, 840 m; 13, 14 Nov. 1999, 2300 m; 13, 15 Nov. 1999, 2300 m, Xinzhu, Judian, Yunnan Province; 13, Menglong, Yunnan Province, 24 Dec. 1999; 13, Lincang, Yunnan Province, 29 Dec. 1999; 103 20 ��, Mianning, Sichuan Province, 8 Nov. 1999, 1600���1650 m, coll. Daozheng Qin; 43 4 ��, Moxi, Luding, Sichuan Province, 4 Nov. 1999, 1600 m; 13 1 ��, 11 Jul. 2001; 13 1 ��, 2 Jul. 1999, Munai, Yunnan Province, 1100 m; 13, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan Province, 5 Jan. 2001; 23 1 ��, Mengyuan, Yunnan Province, 11 Jul. 1999, 1000 m, coll. I. Dworakowska; 23 1 ��, 10 Dec. 2001, Zhubalong, Batang, Sichuan Province, coll. Qiang Sun (13 1 �� in BMNH, rest in NWAFU). Distribution. China (Shaanxi, Yunnan, Sichuan), Vietnam., 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 page 43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203607, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1977 b) On some Typhlocybinae from Vietnam (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Folia Entomologica Hungarica, 30, 9 - 47.","Chou, I. & Zhang, Y. L. (1987) A taxonomic study of the genus Alebroides Mats. from China (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Entomotaxonomia, 9, 289 - 302.","Zhang, Y. L. (1990) A taxonomic study of Chinese Cicadellidae (Homoptera). Tianze Eldonejo, Yangling, Shaanxi, China. 218 pp.","Dworakowska, I. (1997) A review of the genus Alebroides Matsumura, with description of Shumka gen. nov. (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Oriental Insects, 31, 241 - 407."]}

Empoasca (Empoasca) longa Zhang & Liu, sp. nov. (Figs. 19���27; 81���84) Type materials. China: holotype: 3, Mt. Fengyang (27 �� 56 ��� 23 ��� N, 119 �� 13 ��� 31 ��� E), Zhejiang Prov., 7 August 2003, 1250m, coll. Wu Dai; paratypes: 2 3, same data as holotype; 2 3, Chenzhou, Hunan Prov., 16 August 1985, coll. Yalin Zhang & Yonghui Chai; 1 3, Zhangjiajie, Hunan Prov., 7 August 2001, 650m, coll. Qiang Sun; 1 3, Mt. Dayao, Guangxi Prov., 9 September 2000, coll. Zhenjiang Liu, Xiangqun Yuan & Zhongli Sha (all in NWAFU). Length: 3 2.6 mm. Ground color of body gray to yellow (fig. 84). Crown with light green patch on each side of coronal suture (fig. 81). Eyes brown-blackish. Pronotum with irregular white and light green patches on anterior margin of pronotum and under eyes. Forewing and hindwing semitransparent. Abdomen yellow. Legs light yellow to green (fig. 83). Ventral abdominal apodemes relatively long, reaching segment 5, parallel-sided to broadly rounded apices (fig. 23). Pygofer with short dorso-apical lobe curved mediad, ornamented with 9���10 rigid setae distributed from outer to inner face of pygofer (fig. 19); pygofer appendage almost as long as pygofer, barely reaching pygofer margin, curved caudad apically, tapering to apex; bearing some short slim setae on ventro-lateral and dorso-medial surfaces (fig. 20). Anal appendage stout, swollen distinctly at mid-length, posterior margin finely serrated (fig. 21). Subgenital plate in lateral view, curved gradually caudodorsad apically, not expanded apically, tapered to narrow apex; with numerous macrosetae and fine setae somewhat irregularly arranged; 17���19 short microsetae from apex to nearly basal 1 / 3 and basolateral group absent (fig. 27); Paramere with 5 teeth on dentifer, 5���7 setae subapically (fig. 26). Connective broad, anterior margin medially emarginate, strongly sclerotized along mid-line but without obvious dorsal keel (fig. 22). Aedeagus in lateral view with thick preatrium, with distinct flattened plate-like postatrium (figs. 24, 25); shaft at base strongly divergent from line of atrial complex but thence angled caudodorsad, straight in midlength, and again angled dorsad, subparallel-margined to near rounded apex, pair of long processes at base of preatrium; in lateral view long processes aligned with aedeagus stem and tapering to apex. Gonopore terminal. Etymology. The species name refers to the long processes at the base of the preatrium. Distribution. China (Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangxi). Diagnosis. The new species is similar to Empoasca warchalowskii Dworakowska, 1972, but differs in having the long aedeagal processes in lateral view aligned with the aedeagus stem and tapering to the apex; the anal appendage ornamented with small teeth apically; and the pygofer appendage long, bearing some short slim setae on the ventro-lateral and dorso-medial surfaces ventrally., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3055 on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202154, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1972) On some East Asiatic species of the genus Empoasca Walsh (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Sciences Cl II Serie des Sciences biologiques, 20 (1), 17 - 24."]}

Empoasca (Matsumurasca) thapae Dworakowska, 1994 (Figs 128���137) Empoasca (Matsumurasca) thapae Dworakowska, 1994: 104 Type locality. Rumtek, Sikkim, India. (SMTD). Distribution. India (Sikkim). Key to species of the subgenus Empoasca (Matsumurasca Anufriev) ( 3 ) 1. Aedeagal shaft very short, less than half length of preatrium................................................... 2 - Aedeagal shaft long, nearly as long as, or even longer than, preatrium............................................ 3 2. Ventral pygofer appendage bent caudodorsad in basal third and adorned with tufted hairs in apical third, apex smooth on ven- tral side (Fig. 27)........................................................................ E. (M.) clypealata - Ventral pygofer appendage slightly curved dorsad in middle portion and adorned with sparse minute hairs subterminally, apex delicately serrated on ventral side (Figs 93, 94)................................................ E. (M.) parvifacia 3. Aedeagal shaft with ventral processes..................................................................... 4 - Aedeagal shaft without ventral processes................................................................... 9 4. Aedeagal shaft with teeth on dorsal side (Fig. 123)........................................ E. (M.) spinalis, sp. nov. - Aedeagal shaft without teeth on dorsal side................................................................. 5 5. Aedeagal shaft with two pairs of ventral processes........................................................... 6 - Aedeagal shaft with one pair of ventral processes............................................................ 7 6. Aedeagal shaft with both pairs of ventral processes at base (Fig. 132)................................. E. (M.) thapae - Aedeagal shaft with one pair of ventral processes at base and second pair subapically (Fig. 114)........ E. (M.) quadrialata 7. Aedeagal shaft curved in lateral view (Fig. 71), gonopore subterminally on ventral side (Fig. 70)............ E. (M.) dolichi - Aedeagal shaft nearly straight in lateral view, gonopore terminal................................................ 8 8. Ventral pygofer appendage slightly S-shaped, directed caudad (Fig. 53)............................... E. (M.) diversa - Ventral pygofer appendage nearly straight, bent and directed dorsad at its base (Fig. 2)...................... E. (M.) aino 9. Aedeagal shaft with pair of processes at apex............................................................... 10 - Aedeagal shaft without pair of processes at apex............................................................ 11 10. Anal tube process of almost the same width throughout and distinctly toothed at apex (Fig. 44).... E. (M.) dentalis, sp. nov. - Anal tube process strongly narrowed apically and not toothed at apex (Fig. 19)................ E. (M.) biprocessa, sp. nov. 11. Ventral pygofer appendage smooth, not serrated or coarsely sculptured.......................................... 12 - Ventral pygofer appendage serrated terminally or subterminally, or coarsely sculptured subterminally.................. 13 12. Aedeagal shaft arcuate in lateral view, with acute ventroapical projection (Figs 11, 12); anal tube process straight through most of length (Fig. 9)............................................................................ E. (M.) biloba - Aedeagal shaft straight in lateral view, without acute ventroapical projection (Figs 83���86); anal tube process evenly curved (Fig. 81)................................................................................... E. (M.) onukii 13. Ventral pygofer appendage serrated terminally or subterminally................................................ 14 - Ventral pygofer appendage coarsely sculptured subterminally, not serrated............................. E. (M.) schima 14. Ventral pygofer appendage serrated terminally, exceeding caudal margin of pygofer lobe (Figs 35, 36)...... E. (M.) conifera - Ventral pygofer appendage serrated subterminally at ventral side, not exceeding caudal margin of pygofer lobe (Figs 72, 73)........................................................................................ E. (M.) latissima, Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with description of three new species from China, pp. 22-42 in Zootaxa 3003 on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207054, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1994) Typhlocybinae (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) of Sikkim, a preliminary survey. Folia Entomologica Hungarica, 55, 93 - 215."]}

Alebroides nigroscutellus (Distant, 1918) Empoasca nigroscutellata Distant, 1918: 93 Typhlocyba spectra Distant, 1918: 103 Empoanara distanti Ahmed, 1969: 451 Empoanara dravidana Ramkrishnan & Menon, 1972: 111 Empoanara ghulami Ahmed, Samad & Naheed, 1981. nom nud Alebroides nigroscutellus, Dworakowska, 1977 a: 614; Dworakowska, 1981: 159; Dworakowska, 1979: 147; Chou & Zhang, 1987: 296; Zhang, 1990: 132; Dworakowska, 1997: 289. Specimens examined. China: 13, Hengshan, Hunan Province, 11 Aug. 1985, coll. Yalin Zhang & Yonghui Chai; 13, Tianpingshan, Sangzhi, Hunan Province, 13 Aug. 2001, coll. Qiang Sun, by lamp domes; 53 7 ��, 16 Nov. 1999, 2400 m; 13, 14 Nov. 1999, 2400 m, Xinzhu, Judian, Yunnan Province; 1 male, Mengyang, Yunnan Province, 19 Dec. 1999, 840 m; 13, Jindian, Kunming, Yunnan Province, 2 Jan. 2000; 23 1 ��, Mengyuan, Yunnan Province, 18 Oct. 1999, 1600 m; 13, 19 Nov. 1999, 1700 m; 1 ��, 20 Nov. 1999, 1750 m; 33, Jinghong, Yunnan Province, 5 Oct. 1999, 500 m; 23, Mianning, Sichuan Province, 8 Nov. 1999, 1650 m, coll. Daozheng Qin; 13, Lincang, Yunnan Province, 2 Oct. 1999, 1100 m; 13 1 ��, Kunming, Yunnan Province, 31 Oct. 1999, 2360 m; 13, Sanchahe, Mengyang, Yunnan Province, 20 Oct. 1999, 950 m, coll. I. Dworakowska; 1 ��, Weibaoshan, Dali, Yunnan Province, 20 Jul. 2001, 2200 m, coll. Qiang Sun, by lamp domes; 13, Jianfengling, Hainan Province, 18 May 1983, coll. Yalin Zhang (NWAFU). Distribution. China (Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hainan, Taiwan), India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan., 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 42-43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203607, {"references":["Distant, W. L. (1918) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, Rhynchota. Vol. VII. Homoptera: Appendix, Heteroptera: Addenda, London: Taylor and Francis, 7, 210 pp.","Ahmed, M. (1969) Some recent studies of Empoasca complex in Pakistan and their bearing on tribal classification of subfamily Typhlocybinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Agriculture Pakistan, 20, 451 - 455.","Ramakrishnan, U. & Menon, R. M. G. (1972), Studeis on Indian Typhlocybinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) 2, Ten new Species of Typhlocybini, Oriental Insects, 6, 111 - 129.","Dworakowska, I. (1977 a) On some species of the subgenus Kybos Fieb. with remarks on some other Emopoascini (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Science. Serie des Sciences Biologiques, 25, 609 - 617.","Chou, I. & Zhang, Y. L. (1987) A taxonomic study of the genus Alebroides Mats. from China (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Entomotaxonomia, 9, 289 - 302.","Zhang, Y. L. (1990) A taxonomic study of Chinese Cicadellidae (Homoptera). Tianze Eldonejo, Yangling, Shaanxi, China. 218 pp.","Dworakowska, I. (1997) A review of the genus Alebroides Matsumura, with description of Shumka gen. nov. (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Oriental Insects, 31, 241 - 407."]}

Empoasca (Empoasca) uniprossicae Sohi, new record for China Empoasca uniprossicae Sohi, 1977: 359 Specimens examined. China: 2 3, Moxi, Luding, Sichuan Prov., 4 November 1999, 1600m, coll. Daozheng Qin (NWAFU). Distribution. China (Sichuan), India (type locality)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3055 on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202154, {"references":["Sohi, A. S. (1977). New genera and species of Typhlocybinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) from north western India. Oriental Insects, 11 (3), 347 - 362."]}

Membranacea plana Qin & Zhang, sp. n. (Figs 32���46) Type materials. Holotype, male (NWAFU), Sangzhi County, Hunan Province, 3 Sept. 1981, coll. Xinwang Tong. Paratypes. 5 males, 7 Sept. 1981, 3 males, 4 Sept. 1981, 3 males, 1 Sept. 1981, 1 male, 2 Sept. 1981, 1 male, 3 Sept. 1981, 1 male, 8 Aug. 1981, 4 males, 3 Aug. 1981, other data as holotype (NWAFU). Description. Length, male 4.3���4.5 mm. General color tan. Vertex yellow or sordid, centrally with a brownish yellow patch on each side of coronal suture, median black apical spot circled by creamy patch, the creamy patch extends basad of vertex and centrally joining the coronal suture (Figs 32, 33). Eyes dark. Face yellow to beige. Pronotum tan or sordid yellow centrally and posteriorly, anterior margin and arcuate area behind eyes marked with three creamy patches (Fig. 32). Scutellum with a narrow brownish stripe medially, at each side with a creamy patch caudad of scutoscutellar sulcus, scutoscutellar sulcus black (Fig. 32). Forewing reddish tan in basal 3 / 4 and less pigmented in apical 1 / 4, hindwing hyaline, veins beige to brown. Abdomen black brown. Legs yellow except the hind tibiae brown medially. In some specimens the postclypeus has a brownish longitudinal stripe in apical half, anteclypeus mostly brown to blackish brown; forewing reddish brown. Basal sternal abdominal apodemes reaching segment V (Fig. 46). Male pygofer with 6���8 rigid setae at caudodorsal angle of lobe (Figs 37, 39), dorsal bridge nearly third of total length of pygofer (Fig. 38). Subgenital plate slightly thickened in the middle of dorsal margin which bears 4 fairly long and broad setae forming the basal group, 12 lateral macrosetae, ca. 22 marginal microsetae and several feeble microsetae in 2 irregular rows (Figs 37, 44). Paramere with 7 prominent teeth in dentifer, a few sensory pits and and ca. 7 long setae in cluster more cephald (Fig. 45). Aedeagal shaft with two pairs of flanges dorsally (basal-most) and ventrally (distal-most), both dentate basally at outer margins, with a median flake-shaped ventral process distad of ventral paired processes, apex of shaft acuminate and directed caudo-ventrad, preatrium shorter than shaft, gonopore ventral near apex (Figs 37, 42, 43). Remarks. Membranacea plana Qin & Zhang, sp. n. differs from other species of this genus by the aedeagal shaft having two pairs of large flanges dorsally and ventrally, and a ventral preapical median flange. Etymology. The species name alludes to the distinct flake-shaped process at ventral side of the aedeagus., Published as part of Qin, Dao-Zheng, Liu, Yang & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, A taxonomic study of Chinese Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) (II), pp. 48-58 in Zootaxa 2923 on pages 52-54, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277935

Goifa tangailensis (Ahmed & Samad, 1972), n. comb., new record from China (Figs 15���29) Paolia tangailensis Ahmed & Samad, 1972: 85. Goifa aprocessa Mann & Sohi, 1993: 97, syn. nov. Material examined. 1 male 1 female, 20 Dec. 1999, Jinghong, Yunnan Province, 580 m, 1 male, 14 Dec. 1999, Mt. Nangong, 1100 m, 2 males 1 female, 2 Dec. 1999, Munai, Yunnan Province, 1100 m, coll. Irena Dworakowska; 5 males 1 female, 8 Dec. 1999, 1male, 9 Dec. 1999, 3males 1 female, 11 Dec. 1999, coll. Daozheng Qin; 1 female, Qiongzhong, Hainan Province, coll. Yalin Zhang. Remarks. The description and illustration of Paolia tangailensis agree well with the generic differentiation of Goifa except the aedeagus and connective were shown as separated. However, the aedeagus and connective are fused in the specimens of this species deposited in NWAFU (Figs 25, 26), and in specimens of the same species illustrated by Mann & Sohi (1993) (see Mann & Sohi 1993: Figs 8, 9). Therefore, a new combination is created here and a new synonym and is also proposed. The specimens of this species in NWAFU have a tooth near the apex of paramere (Figs 27, 28) that is not shown in the illustrations provided by Ahmed & Samad (1972) and Mann & Sohi (1993). Distribution. China (Yunnan and Hainan Provinces), Pakistan, India., Published as part of Qin, Dao-Zheng, Liu, Yang & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, A taxonomic study of Chinese Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) (III), pp. 30-42 in Zootaxa 3094 on pages 34-36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203357, {"references":["Ahmed, M. & Samad, K. (1972) Some new additions to the typhlocybine fauna of East Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Science and Industrial Research, 15, 285 - 290.","Mann, J. S. & Sohi, A. S. (1993) A new species of the genus Goifa Dworakowska (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) from northern India. Journal of Insect Science, 6, 97 - 98."]}

Empoasca (Matsumurasca) onukii Matsuda, 1952 (Figs 78 ���91, 143, 152, 161,170) Empoasca onukii Matsuda, 1952: 20 Chlorita onukii, Ishihara, 1953: 30 Empoasca (Chlorita) onukii Matsuda, Metcalf, 1968: 573 Empoasca (Matsumurasca) onukii Matsuda, Dworakowska, 1971: 505; Dworakowska, 1982: 52; Qin & Zhang, 2008: 24 Type locality. Tsukumi, Japan. (repository unknown). Specimens examined. China: 2 3, 31 Jul. 1985; 1 3, 3 Aug. 1985; 1 3, 4 Aug. 1985; 1 3, 8 Aug. 1985; 5 3, 15 Aug. 1985; 1 3, 30 Aug. 1985; Chenzhou, Hunan Prov.; 1 3, 29 July 1985, Mt. Mang, Chenzhou, Hunan Prov; 1 3, 11 Aug. 1985, Mt. Heng, Hunan Prov., all coll. Yalin Zhang & Yonghui Chai; 1 3, Diaoluoshan, Hainan Prov., 4 Jul. 1983, coll. Yalin Zhang, light trap; 1 3, Mt. Emei, Sichuan Prov., 1 Nov. 1999, 950 m, coll. Daozheng Qin; 3 3, Jiangjiadian, Yuxian, Hebei Prov., 12 Aug. 2006, coll. Yani Duan; 3 3, Mt. Wuyi, Fujian Prov., 20 Aug. 2002, coll. Qinxia Sun; 1 3, 1 Jul. 1999, Lincang, Yunnan Prov., coll. Irena Dworakowska; 6 3, Qingliangfeng, Zhejiang Prov., 10 Aug. 2005, 1000 m, coll. Yani Duan. Distribution. China (Zhejiang, Hainan, Hunan, Sichuan, Fujian, Yunnan, Henan, Gansu, Hebei), Japan, Vietnam. Hebei Province is a new distributional record. Remarks. The preatrium of the aedeagus is a little swollen in some specimens from China (Fig. 83)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with description of three new species from China, pp. 22-42 in Zootaxa 3003 on page 31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207054, {"references":["Matsuda, R. (1952) A new green Empoasca leafhopper injurious to the tea shrub in Japan. Oyo-Kontyu, 8, 19 - 21.","Ishihara, T. (1953) A tentative check list of the superfamily Cicadelloidae of Japan (Homoptera). Scientific Reports of the Matsuyama Agricultural College, 11, 1 - 72.","Metcalf, Z. P. (1968) General catalogue of the Homoptera. VI. Cicadelloidea. 17. Cicadellidae. Washington: US Department. Agriculture, VII, 1513 pp.","Dworakowska, I. (1971) Dayus takagii sp. n. and some other Empoascini (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Sciences Serie des Sciences Biologiques, 19, 501 - 509.","Dworakowska, I. (1982) Empoascini of Japan, Korea and north - east part of China (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Reichenbachia, 20, 33 - 57.","Qin, D. Z. & Zhang, Y. L. (2008) The leafhopper subgenus Empoasca (Matsumurasca) from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with descriptions of three new species. Z ootaxa, 1817, 18 - 26."]}

Ghauriana sinensis Qin & Zhang, sp. n. (Figs 65���80) Type materials. Holotype, male (NWAFU), Huaping, Guangxi Autonomous Region, 29 Aug. 2000, coll. Zhenjiang Liu. Paratypes, 1 male, same data as holotype; 2 males, Lingchuan County, Guangxi Autonomous Region, coll. Xiaolin Lu, by light trap; 1 male, Baoshan County, Yunnan Province, 24 Jun. 1974, 1700 m, coll. Yao Zhou & Feng Yuan; 6 males, Sanchahe, Mengyang, Yunnan Province, 7 Jun. 1991, 800 m, coll. Rungang Tian, Wanzhi Cai & Yinglun Wang, by light trap (NWAFU). Description. Length, male 3.6���3.8 mm. Ground color yellow. Vertex yellow to yellowish brown, coronal suture brownish. Eyes brown, circles aound ocelli ivory or brownish. Face, forewing, abdomen and legs yellow. Pronotum mostly yellow to brownish, with irregular patches along arc of anterior margin. Centre of scutellum anteriorly and caudad of scutoscutellar sulcus with yellow patch, respectively, at each side of lateral margins with a relatively small patch, scutoscutellar sulcus brown (Fig. 65). Forewing semi-transparent, hindwing transparent, without fine spines on margins (Fig. 69). Body robust. Head equally wide as pronotum (Fig. 65). Vertex rounded anteriorly, in midlength slightly shorter than width between eyes (Fig. 65), in profile regularly curving into convex and slightly elongated face (Figs 66, 67), coronal suture clear, reaching half of vertex length (Fig. 65). Pronotum nearly twice as long as vertex in midline (Fig. 65). Forewing narrow, rounded apically, apical cells occupying less than third its length, veins RP and MP��� separated at bases, both arise from r cell and MP���+CuA��� from m cell, c and r cells almost equally wide (Fig. 68). Hindwing with bifurcation of CuA drawn apicad (Fig. 69). Basal sternal abdominal apodemes parallel sided, nearly reaching middle of segment V (Fig. 80). Male pygofer slightly elongate, triangular, terminal part strongly narrowing caudad, with a few rigid microsetae at apex of lobe, ventral appendage narrow, slightly sinuate, longer than pygofer side in profile, apical third bearing hair-like cuticular outgrowths on dorsal side (Figs 70, 72), dorsal bridge slightly less than half length of lobe in dorsal aspect (Fig. 71). Subgenital plate far exceeding pygofer side, broad at base and gradually tapering towards apex, ventral margin curved dorsad in apical half, setae of basal group undifferentiated, dorsal margin with ca. 24 short microsetae, ca. 16 spine-like lateral macrosetae in one row and numerous feeble microsetae in 2���3 rows starting along with macrosetae (Figs 70, 78). Apex of paramere thickened, dentifer bearing 8 teeth, 2���3 setae below and few sensory pits more cephalad (Fig. 79). Aedeagus shaft tubular, short and robust, approximately half length of preatrium, gonopore ventrad near apex (Figs 70, 75, 76). Connective lamellate, apical margin notched medially (Figs 73, 77). Anal tube process broad, reaching half height of pygofer, apex rounded and adorned with tiny neoplasitc processes (Figs 70, 74). Remarks. The genus Ghauriana was established by Thapa in 1985 and was previously known only from the type species from Nepal. The new species here described differs from G. pecularia in having the vertex midlength slightly shorter than the width between the eyes (in G. p e c u l a r i a the vertex is distinctly shorter than the width between the eyes ca. 0.50: 1) and the ventral pygofer appendage bearing hair-like cuticular outgrowths on the dorsal side in the apical third (absent in G. p e c u l a r i a). Etymology. The species name alludes to the locality of the type material (China). Distribution. China (Guangxi, Yunnan)., Published as part of Qin, Dao-Zheng, Liu, Yang & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, A taxonomic study of Chinese Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) (II), pp. 48-58 in Zootaxa 2923 on pages 56-58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277935

Empoasca (Empoasca) dendritica Qin & Liu, sp. nov. (Figs. 1���9; 73���76) Type materials. China: holotype: 1 3, Mengla (21 �� 28 ��� 33 ��� N, 101 �� 34 ��� 03��� E), Yunnan Prov., 31 August 2005, 660m, coll. Meng Li; paratypes: 1 3, same data as holotype; 1 3, Mengla, Yunnan Prov., 16 December 1999, 700m, coll. Daozheng Qin; 1 3 2 ��, Mengla, Yunnan Prov., 15 December 1999, 700m, coll. Dworakowska (all in NWAFU). Length: 3 2.3 mm. Ground color of body yellow-greenish (fig. 76). Crown with light green patch on each side of coronal suture (fig. 73). Eyes brown. Pronotum with irregular patches on anterior margin of pronotum and under eyes. Forewing and hindwing semitransparent. Abdomen light yellow. Legs light yellow to green (fig. 75). Ventral abdominal apodemes well developed, nearly reaching segment 5, parallel-sided to broadly rounded apices (fig. 4). Pygofer in lateral view broadly rounded on posterior margin, ornamented with 8���10 rigid setae distributed from outer to inner face of pygofer (fig. 1); pygofer appendage in lateral view curved dorsad to follow posterior margin of pygofer, but usually extending just beyond pygofer, basal portion not expanded significantly dorsad, tapering to apex (fig. 2). Anal appendage stout, swollen distinctly at mid-length, smooth (fig. 3). Subgenital plate in lateral view, curved gradually caudodorsad apically, not expanded apically, tapering to rounded apex; with numerous macrosetae and fine setae somewhat irregularly scattered; dorsolateral margin with 4���5 long stout setae subbasally, 16���18 short microsetae on apical half (fig. 9). Paramere with 8 teeth on dentifer, 5���7 setae subapically (fig. 8). Connective broad, anterior margin medially emarginate. Aedeagus in lateral view with preatrium long, pair of branched process arising from atrium below shaft, tapered to acute apex (figs. 6, 7). Gonopore terminal. Etymology. The species name is derived from ��� dendritica ��� which refers to the branch-like processes located at the base of the aedeagus shaft. Distribution. China (Yunnan). Diagnosis. The new species is similar to Empoasca linnavuoriorum Dworakowska, 1972. It differs in having a pair of branched processes arising from base of the aedeagus shaft, and the anal appendage stout, distinctly swollen medially, and smooth., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3055 on pages 2-3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202154, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1972) On some East Asiatic species of the genus Empoasca Walsh (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Sciences Cl II Serie des Sciences biologiques, 20 (1), 17 - 24."]}

Empoasca (Okubasca) Dworakowska, 1982 Empoasca (Okubasca Dworakowska, 1982: 53) Type species. Empoasca okubella Matsumura, 1931, by original designation Remarks. The subgenus is primarily characterized by its pygofer lobe having additional rigid microsetae at the ventral margin; pygofer ventral appendage short, subgenital plate apex strongly tapered, group B setae continuous from near base to apex, group A not differentiated, aedeagal shaft long relative to preatrium, plate apex fuscous (Dworakowska, 1982; Southern, 1982). Empoasca (Okubasca) previously included only the type species, E. okubella Matsumura, from Japan. Distribution. China (Yunnan and Zhejiang Provinces), Japan. Key to species of Empoasca (Okubasca Dworakowska) ( 3 ) 1. Aedeagal shaft with minute transverse ribs dorsally near base (Fig. 14); in ventral aspect, shaft smooth subapically, without lateral teeth (Fig. 15); anal tube appendage straight (Fig. 12).......................... E. (O.) calvata Qin & Liu sp. nov. - Aedeagus shaft without minute transverse ribs dorsally near base (Fig. 26); in ventral aspect, shaft with lateral teeth subapically (Fig. 27); anal tube appendage curved apically (Fig. 24)................................................... 2 2. Anal tube appendage curved caudad apically (Figs. 21, 24); aedeagus with preatrium weakly developed, shaft broadest at base (Fig. 26)............................................................... E. (O.) dianella Qin & Zhang sp. nov. - Anal tube appendage curved baso-cephalad apically (Fig. 4); aedeagus with preatrium nearly as long as shaft, shaft broadest in middle (Figs. 2, 3)............................................................... E. (O.) okubella Matsumura, Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Okubasca) Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), first record from China and description of two new species, pp. 59-64 in Zootaxa 3101 on page 60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203489, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. (1982) Empoascini of Japan, Korea and north-east part of China (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Reichenbachia, 20, 33 - 57.","Matsumura, S. (1931) A revision of the Palaearctic and Oriental Typhlocybid-genera with description of new species and new genera. Insect Matsumurana, 6, 55 - 92.","Southern, P. S. (1982) A taxonomic study of the genus Empoasca (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) in eastern Peru. North Carolina Agricultural Research Service Technical Bulletin, 272, 194 pp."]}

Empoasca (Livasca Dworakowska & Viraktamath), new record for China Empoasca (Livasca) Dworakowska & Viraktamath, 1978: 540 Type species: Empoasca (Livasca) malliki Dworakowska& Viraktamath, 1978, by original designation. Empoasca (Livasca) Dworakowska & Viraktamath, 1978: 539 ���548 The leafhopper subgenus Empoasca (Livasca) was first described by Dworakowska &Viraktamath in 1978, with Empoasca (Livasca) malliki Dworakowska &Viraktamath as the type species. At present, there has only been one species reported worldwide. It is primarily characterized by the very broad subgenital plate which has the macrosetae are rather large and infuscated, and slender setae no longer than the macrosetae and forming irregular rows. The microsetae on the dorsal marginal area are very short and thin, arranged in a single row, and the row extends around the tip of the plate. The anal tube process not well developed. The ventral pygofer appendage exceeds the caudal margin of the lobe and has a very broad base and dissociated apical part. The connective is broad with the anterior margin thickened and the caudal margin narrow and incised medially. Distribution. Oriental region., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3055 on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202154

Alebroides yanglinginus Chou & Zhang, 1987 (Figs 33 ��� 41 ) Alebroides yanglinginus Chou & Zhang, 1987: 290; Zhang, 1990: 135; Dworakowska, 1997: 283. Alebroides taibaiensis Chou & Zhang, 1987: 295. syn. n. Specimen examined. China: 13 (holotype of A. yanglinginus), campus of NWAFU, Sept. 1983, coll. Yalin Zhang, by lamp domes (NWAFU). 13 (holotype of A. taibaiensis), Luotuoshu, Shaanxi Province, 29 May 1983, 2100 m, coll. group of insect survey for Taibaishan. (NWAFU); 13 1 ��, Qinling, Shaanxi Province, 10 Sept. 1987, coll. Chai Yonghui; 1 male, Fengxian, Shaanxi Province, 6 May 1980, collector unknown; 2 # 3 ��, 3 Jul. 2001; 43 5 ��, 4 Jul. 2001, Qiujiaba, Wenxian, Gansu Province, 2140 m; 23, Yanggashan, Wenxian, Gansu Province, 6 Jul. 2001, 1950 m, coll. Qiang Sun; 43 1 ��, Shenlongjia, Hubei Province, 27 Jul. 2001, coll. Min Huang & Guiling Zhang (NWAFU). Distribution. China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei). Remarks. After checking the holotype of A. taibaiensis, the new illustrations (Figs 37���41) show many similarities to A. yanglinginus (Figs 33���36) except for differences in the size of the penis shaft and the size of the dorsal lamella in profile, and also the ventral pygofer appendage adorned with minute transverse ribs in its caudal part in the former species. However, we suggest these differences represent variability within one species, and therefore treat the two taxa as synonyms. Dworakowska (1997) tentatively placed Alebroides yanglinginus in the A. toroensis species group. We suggest that this species should be assigned to the A. hachijonis species group base on the following combination of characters: anal tube process long and tapering distad, extending well beyond main body of segment 10; subgenital plate broadened at basal part and narrower apically; paramere s-shaped terminally with dentifer bearing well-defined teeth; aedeagal shaft almost 2 / 5 of total length., 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 39-40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203607, {"references":["Chou, I. & Zhang, Y. L. (1987) A taxonomic study of the genus Alebroides Mats. from China (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Entomotaxonomia, 9, 289 - 302.","Zhang, Y. L. (1990) A taxonomic study of Chinese Cicadellidae (Homoptera). Tianze Eldonejo, Yangling, Shaanxi, China. 218 pp.","Dworakowska, I. (1997) A review of the genus Alebroides Matsumura, with description of Shumka gen. nov. (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Oriental Insects, 31, 241 - 407."]}

Membranacea spinata Qin & Zhang, sp. n. (Figs 1���15) Type materials. Holotype, male (NWAFU), Mt. Heng, Hunan Province, 11 Aug. 1985, coll. Yalin Zhang & Yonghui Chai. Paratypes, 3 males, same data as holotype; 1 male, 7 Aug. 1985, 2 males, 8 Aug. 1985, other data as holotype (NWAFU). Description. Length, male 4.0���4.3 mm. General color reddish orange. Vertex centrally with a beige patch on each side of coronal suture, median black apical spot circled by creamy patch, the creamy patch extends basad of vertex which centrally joining the coronal suture (Figs 1, 2). Eyes dark. Ante- and postclypeus of face yellow. Genae beige. Pronotum reddish orange centrally and posteriorly, at anterior margin with an orange patch in middle and rest of arch of pronotum antero-laterally surrounded with irregular patches (Fig. 1). Centre of scutellum with a quadrate patch anteriorly, a semicircular patch caudad of scutoscutellar sulcus and two relatively small patch at each side of lateral margins, scutoscutellar sulcus brownish (Fig. 1). Forewing semi-transparent, reddish orange in basal 2 / 3 and yellowish in apical 1 / 3, hindwing hyaline, veins beige to brown. Abdomen blackish dorsally with irregular sordid yellow patches laterally on each tergite, beige ventrally. Legs yellow. Basal sternal abdominal apodemes reaching end of segment V (Fig. 15). Male pygofer with ca. 7 rigid setae dorso-caudally (Figs 6, 8), dorsal bridge less than third of the total length of pygofer (Fig. 7), Subgenital plate broad in basal third, ventral margin curved dorsad in apical 2 / 3 leading to the plate slightly narrowing apicad, apex curved dorsad, slightly thickened dorsal margin in middle have 3 fairly long and broad setae forming the basal group, 13���14 lateral macrosetae, ca. 15 marginal microsetae and 2 irregular rows of feeble microsetae (Figs 6, 13). Paramere with 10 prominent teeth and ca. 14 long setae in cluster more cephald (Fig. 14). Aedeagal shaft with two pairs of flanges in dorsal aspect, the dorso-medial pair large and dentate basally at outer margins, another smaller pair near apex on ventral side, basad of these a spinous process medially, terminal part of shaft sharply narrowing to acuminated apex, preatrium slightly shorter than shaft, gonopore subterminal, ventral (Figs 6, 11, 12). Remarks. Membranacea spinata Qin & Zhang, sp. n. differs from other members of this genus by the aedeagal shaft having a ventral spine near the apex. Etymology. The species name is formed from ��� spinatus ��� (Latin; adjective), with the female termination ���a, referring to the spine-like process of the aedeagus., Published as part of Qin, Dao-Zheng, Liu, Yang & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, A taxonomic study of Chinese Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) (II), pp. 48-58 in Zootaxa 2923 on pages 49-51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277935

Empoasca (Okubasca) dianella Qin & Zhang, sp. nov. (Figs. 19���30) Type materials. Holotype. 3 (NWAFU), China: Yunnan Province, Yaoqu, 13.vi. 2009, coll. Wei Cui, light trap. Paratype. 1 3, same data as holotype. Descriptions. Length. 3 4.7 mm. General colour yellow. Vertex orange, with small hypodermal round spot medially at each side, coronal suture brown. Eyes black. Face with frontoclypeus orange, anteclypeus and genae white. Pronotum mostly orange, anteriorly with medial semicircular milky patch and two irregular milky patches laterally behind eyes. Centre of scutellum with quadrate milky patch anteriorly and big patch caudad of scutoscutellar sulcus. Forewing semi-transparent, brochosome field whitish, hindwing greyish white. Abdomen and legs yellowish white. Body robust (Fig. 38). Head narrower and distinctly shorter than pronotum (Fig. 35). Vertex short and broad, rounded anteriorly, in dorsal view distinctly narrower than width between eyes, anterior and posterior margins parallel, coronal suture distinct, surpassing half of vertex length (Fig. 35). Face short, convex in lateral aspect (Fig. 37), lateral frontal suture distinct (Fig. 36), vertex in profile rounded to face (Fig. 37). Pronotum large, more than 2.0 times longer than vertex in midline (Fig. 35). Forewing narrow, rounded apically, veins RP and MP��� separate at bases, 2 nd apical cell broadening towards apex (Fig. 19). Basal sternal abdominal apodemes parallel-sided, reaching end of segment IV (Fig. 30). Male pygofer elongate, apical 2 / 5 strongly narrowing caudad, with 6���7 rigid microsetae on each side of lobe (Figs. 21, 23); ventral appendage short, pygofer with 11���12 rigid microsetae at the lower margin level with apex of appendage (Figs. 21, 23); dorsal bridge short, less than third of total length of pygofer, caudo-dorsally curved medially (Fig. 22). Subgenital plate longer than pygofer side, broadest subbasally and narrowing apicad, curved dorsad in apical half, with 14���15 lateral macrosetae, numerous marginal microsetae on almost whole dorsal margin of plate and several fine microsetae arranged in 1���2 rows, apical part of plate infuscated (Figs. 21, 25). Paramere sinuate apically, subapex bearing 6 teeth preceded by 10���11 long fine microsetae (Fig. 29). Connective lamellate, apical margin notched medially (Fig. 28). Aedeagus with preatrium and dorsal apodeme undeveloped, shaft tubular, in profile broadest at base and strongly narrowing apicad, shaft curved caudo-dorsad from basal 2 / 5, apical half of shaft with margins nearly parallel in lateral aspect, gonopore ventrad near apex (Fig. 26), shaft in ventral view with irregular teeth subapically on both sides (Fig. 27). Anal tube process surpassing half height of pygofer, narrowing and curved caudad apically (Figs. 21, 24). Remarks. E. (O.) dianella can be distinguished from other species of this subgenus by the anal tube appendage which is curved caudad apically. Etymology. The species name is formed from ��� dian ��� (abbreviation of Yunnan), with the diminutive suffix ��� ella, referring to the type locality of the new species. Distribution. At present known only from the type locality in southern China (Yunnan Province)., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Okubasca) Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), first record from China and description of two new species, pp. 59-64 in Zootaxa 3101 on pages 62-64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203489

Alebroides shirakiellus (Matsumura, 1931) Empoasca shirakiellus Matsumura, 1931: 83. Alebroides shirakiellus, Dworakowska, 1970: 274; Dworakowska, 1997: 251. Alebroides hachijonis: Chou & Zhang, 1987: 296, error. not Alebroides kowali Dworakowska, 1997: 253. Specimens examined. China: 1 3, Daoxian, Hunan Province, 22 Aug. 1982; 1 3 1 ��, Daoxian, Hunan Province, 28 Aug. 1982; 1 3 4 ��, Daoxian, Hunan Province, 30 Aug. 1982, coll. Xinwang Tong; 53 16 ��, Jigongshan, Xinyang, Henan Province, 11 Jul. 1997, coll. Jian Hu; 63 2 ��, Mianning, Sichuan Province, 8 Nov. 1999, 1650 m; 13, Wolong, Sichuan Province, 26 Oct. 1999, 2200 m; 13, Emeishan, Sichuan Province, 27 Oct. 1999, 1000 m; 13, 5 Nov. 1999, 2400 m; 1 ��, 4 Nov. 1999, 1600 m, Hailuogou, Sichuan Province, coll. I. Dworakowska; 23, Songhuaba, Kunming, Yunnan Province, 4 Jan. 2001; 13, Lincang, Yunnan Province, 29 Oct. 1999; 13 6 ��, Dali, Yunnan Province, 11 Nov. 1999, 2000 m; 23, Xinzhu, Judian, Yunan Province, 16 Nov. 1999, 2350���2400 m, coll. Daozheng Qin; 13, Mengla, Yunnan Province, 22 Apr. 1982; 1 ��, 31 Mar. 1982; 1 ��, 23 Mar. 1982, Wenquan, Kunming, Yunnan Province, coll. Sumei Wang & Jingruo Zhou (NWAFU). Distribution. China (Hunan, Henan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Taiwan)., 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 page 43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203607, {"references":["Matsumura, S. (1931) A revision of the Palaearctic and Oriental Typhlocybid-genera with description of new species and new genera. Insect Matsumurana, 6, 55 - 92.","Dworakowska, I. (1970) On some genera of Empoascini (Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Science. Serie des Sciences Biologiques, 18, 269 - 275.","Dworakowska, I. (1997) A review of the genus Alebroides Matsumura, with description of Shumka gen. nov. (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Oriental Insects, 31, 241 - 407.","Chou, I. & Zhang, Y. L. (1987) A taxonomic study of the genus Alebroides Mats. from China (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Entomotaxonomia, 9, 289 - 302."]}

Empoasca (Empoasca) undulata Zhang & Liu, sp. nov. (Figs. 45���53; 93���95) Type materials. China: holotype: 3, Chenzhou (25 �� 46 ��� 59 ��� N, 113 �� 01��� 06��� E), Hunan Prov., 3 August 1985, coll. Yalin Zhang; paratypes: 2 3, same data as holotype (all in NWAFU). Length: 3 3.0 mm. Ground color of body yellow to light brown. Crown with very light brown patch on each side of coronal suture (fig. 93). Eyes black centrally, silver marginally. Pronotum with irregular patches on anterior margin of pronotum and under eyes. Forewing and hindwing semitransparent. Abdomen yellow. Legs light yellow to light green. Ventral abdominal apodemes well developed, parallel-sided, reaching segment 5. Pygofer with short dorso-apical lobe curved mediad, narrowing to apex of lobe, ornamented with two groups of setae, 10���12 rigid setae along dorsal margin of lobe, another group on centre of lobe, with some slim setae (fig. 45, 46); pygofer appendage in lateral view curved dorsad to follow posterior margin of pygofer, extending beyond pygofer, central part of pygofer appendage sinuate, then tapering to apex (fig. 47). Anal appendage stout, swollen distinctly at mid-length, with numerous small teeth posteroventrally (fig. 50). Subgenital plate in lateral view, curved gradually caudodorsad apically, not expanded apically, tapering to rounded apex; with numerous macrosetae and fine setae somewhat irregularly arranged; dorsolateral margin with 4���5 long stout setae subbasally, 16���18 short microsetae on almost entire length (fig. 53). Paramere with 5 teeth on dentifer, 8���11 setae subapically (fig. 52). Connective broad, anterior margin medially emarginate (fig. 51). Aedeagus in lateral view with preatrium long, pair of long process arising from shaft near dorsal margin, tapered to acute apex, aedeagus shaft compressed, truncate apically and with long apical appendage from ventral margin (figs. 48, 49). Gonopore in centre of broadly truncate apex. Etymology. The species name is derived from ��� undulates ���, and refers to the sinuate middle part of the pygofer processes. Distribution. China (Hunan). Diagnosis. The new species is similar to Empoasca gucia Dworakowska, 1977, but differs in the sinuate central part of the pygofer processes, and in having the aedeagus shaft compressed and with a long appendage from the apical ventral margin., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3055 on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202154

Ifugoa Dworakowska & Pawar Ifugoa Dworakowska & Pawar, 1974: 587. Type species. Ifugoa mikra Dworakowska & Pawar, 1974, by original designation. Included taxa: I. mikra Dworakowska & Pawar (1974), I. media Dworakowska (1980) and I. barringtoniae (Metcalf, 1946). Distribution. China (Hainan Province), Philippines, India, Guam. Remarks. Dworakowska & Pawar (1974) established the genus Ifugoa with I. mikra Dworakowska & Pawar as the type species. Meanwhile, they transferred Empoasca barringtoniae Metcalf (1946) to Ifugoa. From the illustrations of wings of Metcalf (1946), Empoasca barringtoniae appears meet the diagnoses of Ifugoa (see Metcalf 1946: Figs a, c). However, the original description, especially the configuration of male genitalia remain obscure at present and here is omitted from the key to species of the genus., Published as part of Qin, Dao-Zheng, Liu, Yang & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, A taxonomic study of Chinese Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) (III), pp. 30-42 in Zootaxa 3094 on page 36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203357, {"references":["Dworakowska, I. & Pawar, A. D. (1974) Six new Oriental species of Typhlocybinae (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Science. Serie des Sciences Biologiques, 22, 583 - 590.","Dworakowska, I. (1980) On some Typhlocybinae from India (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Entomologische Abhandlungen und Berichte aus dem staatlichen Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden, 43, 151 - 201.","Metcalf, Z. P. (1946) Homoptera. Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 189, 105 - 148."]}

Empoasca (Matsumurasca) quadrialata Qin & Zhang, 2008, nom. nov. (Figs 109 ���118, 145, 154, 163, 172) Empoasca (Matsumurasca) quadrifida Qin & Zhang, 2008: 24, preoccupied by E. quadrifida Southern, 1982. Type locality. Mianning County, Sichuan Prov., China. (NWAFU). Distribution. China (Sichuan, Yunnan). Remarks. The species E. (M.) quadrifida Qin & Zhang (2008) is a junior homonym of E. quadrifida Southern, 1982, and this new name is proposed as a replacement for Qin & Zhang���s (2008) name. Etymology. The replacement name is an adjective derived from the Latin words ��� quad ��� meaning four and ��� alatus ��� meaning wing, referring to the four processes on the aedeagal shaft., Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with description of three new species from China, pp. 22-42 in Zootaxa 3003 on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207054, {"references":["Qin, D. Z. & Zhang, Y. L. (2008) The leafhopper subgenus Empoasca (Matsumurasca) from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with descriptions of three new species. Z ootaxa, 1817, 18 - 26."]}