Paramritodus podocarpus Zhang & Li

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 : 586-587

Paramritodus podocarpus Zhang & Li

( Figs 3 , 9 , 26–34 )

Amritodus podocarpus Zhang & Li, 2010: 730 , figs 1–9.

Diagnosis. Crown ( Figs 3 , 9 ) yellow, without black spot. Mesonotum ( Fig. 3 ) yellow without basal triangles. Frontoclypeus, anteclypeus, gena, and lora ( Fig. 9 ) pale yellow. Forewings ( Fig. 3 ) gray brown except clavus dark brown.

Pygofer ( Fig. 27 ) inner process not reaching caudal margin. Subgenital plates ( Fig. 27 ) distinctly shorter than pygofer. Aedeagus ( Figs 28, 29 ) without process and dorsal apodeme poorly developed, aedeagal preatrium arcuate in lateral view, gonopore near middle of shaft. Style ( Fig. 32 ) subapical extended. Connective ( Figs 30–31 ) small.

Material examined. 2 ♂, 1 ♀, CHINA, Guizhou Province, Tongren City, Maolan National Nature Reserve , 500 m, 14.vi.2006, coll. Bin Zhang ( IMNU) ; 1 ♂, Guizhou Province, Xingyi City , 6.v.2006, coll. Bin Zhang ( IMNU) .

Distribution. China (Guizhou).

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the following features: crown without pair of black spots on either side of midline; style medially concave and extended subapically; aedeagal shaft slender and elongate, and preatrium arcuate in lateral view.

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 26–34. Paramritodus podocarpus (Zhang & Li). 26, Dorsal and ventral abdominal apodemes, dorsal view; 27, Genital capsule, lateral view; 28,Aedeagus, lateral view; 29,Aedeagus, ventral view; 30, Connective lateral view; 31, Connective ventral view; 32, Style, lateral view; 33, Female genital, ventral view; 34, Female genital capsule, lateral view.