Paramritodus Xue & Zhang, 2020

Yu, Tingting, Zhu, Qiuyi, Li, Guoqing & Zhang, Bin, 2024, Review of Chinese species of genus Paramritodus Xue & Zhang (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with description of a new species, Zootaxa 5501 (4), pp. 583-592 : 584

Paramritodus Xue & Zhang

Paramritodus Xue & Zhang, 2020: 1449 . Type species: Paramritodus triangulus Xue & Zhang.

Description. Coloration. Body generally yellowish brown or brown, crown usually with black spots, face yellowish or brownish, pronotum sometimes with black markings on the anterior margin.

Morphology. Head distinctly wider than pronotum. Face including eyes wider than long, lora small. Clypellus projecting beyond genae, gradually widened distally and truncate. Scutellum slightly longer than median length of mesonotum and scutellum together. Hind tibial macrosetae PD 14–19.

Male genitalia. Pygofer elongate, triangular, narrow at base, gradually broadened and narrow terminally; inner processes near or surpassing the caudal margin. Subgenital plate shorter than pygofer. Aedeagal shaft curved, dorsal apodeme often poorly developed. Connective small, with stem shorter than the combined width of the arms.

Female genitalia. Posterior margin of seventh sternite concave. Second valvulae regularly broadened, bearing teeth along dorsal margin.

Distribution. China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Shanxi, Taiwan, Yunnan and Zhejiang).

Diagnosis. Paramritodus closely resembles Amritodus but differs in having the inner subapical cell open (crossvein m-cu1 absent) and outer subapical cell closed (crossvein r-m1 present) on the forewings, the connective stem shorter than the combined width of the arms and two platellae on the hind basitarsus.

Key to male species of Paramritodus

1. Pronotum with pair of triangular black markings on anterior margin............................................. 2

Pronotum without pair of triangular black markings................................................. P. pistacious

2. Mesonotum with basal triangles dark brown................................................................ 3

Mesonotum with basal triangles orange.......................................................... P. podocarpus

3. Pygofer lobe ventral margin strongly depressed; apex of style fork-like.............................. P. concavicaudus

Pygofer lobe ventral margin nearly straight; apex of style pick-like.............................................. 4

4. Aedeagal process longer than half length of shaft.................................................... P. spatiosus

Aedeagal process shorter than half length of shaft............................................................ 5

5. Pygofer with inner process curved dorsally in lateral view, slightly longer than pygofer..................... P. introflexus

Pygofer with inner process S-shaped in lateral view, not reaching caudal margin of pygofer................. P. triangulus