Paramritodus pistacious Huang & Maldonado Capriles

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 : 585-586

Paramritodus pistacious Huang & Maldonado Capriles

( Figs 2 , 8 , 16–25 )

Amritodus pistacious Huang & Maldonado Capriles, 1992: 2 , fig. 1. Holotype ♂, (NMNS, examined)

Amritodus flavocapitatus Cai & He, Cai et al., 2001: 199 , figs 54–61. syn. nov.

Diagnosis. Crown and face ( Figs 2 , 8 ) yellowish brown, without black spots. Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum ( Fig. 2 ) ocher yellow lacking the black markings.

Pygofer ( Fig. 17 ) with elongate caudal lobe; inner processes short and curved apically, not reaching caudal margin, apex hook-shaped. Aedeagal shaft ( Figs 19, 20 ) with subapex curved dorsally in lateral view, without basal pair of processes; dorsal apodeme poorly developed; gonopore subapical.

Material examined. Holotype ♂, 5 ♀ Paratypes, CHINA, Taiwan Province , Taizhong, 15.vii.1987, coll. C.T. Yang ( NMNS); 1 ♂ , CHINA, Taiwan Province, Taizhong City, Nantou County, Wushe , 1150 m, 6–11.v.1981, coll. K.S. Lin & S.C. Lin ( NMNS); 2 ♂, 3 ♀ , Taiwan Province, Taizhong City, Nantou County, Lushan , 1000 m, 27–31.v.1980, coll. K.S. Lin & L.Y. Chou ( NMNS); 1 ♂, 3 ♀ , Taiwan Province, Taoyuan County, Paling, 800m, 3–5.v.1983, coll. K.C. Chou & C.C. Pan ( NMNS); 2 ♂, 3 ♀, Henan Province , Huixian County, 15.vi.2008, coll. Wei Liu ( IMNU) .

Distribution. China ( Taiwan, Henan).

Remarks. We examined the type material and clearly showed that P. flavocapitatus should be considered a junior synonym of P. pistacious . This species can be distinguished from the other species of Paramritodus by the elongate pygofer with short inner process and hook-shaped apex.

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. Paramritodus dorsal habitus, male. 1, P. introflexus; 2, P. pistacious; 3, P. podocarpus; 4, P. spatiosus; 5, P. triangulus; 6, P. concavicaudus.

FIGURES 7–12. Facial aspect of Paramritodus, male. 7, P. introflexus; 8, P. pistacious; 9, P. podocarpus; 10, P. spatiosus; 11, P. triangulus; 12, P. concavicaudus.

FIGURES 16–25. Paramritodus pistacious. 16, Dorsal and ventral abdominal apodemes, dorsal view; 17, Genital capsule, lateral view; 18. Genital capsule, dorsal view; 19, Aedeagus, lateral view; 20, Aedeagus, ventral view; 21, Connective lateral view; 22, Connective ventral view; 23, Style, lateral view; 24, Female genital, ventral view; 25. Female genital capsule, lateral view.