Amritodus brevis Viraktamath

VIRAKTAMATH, C. A. & YESHWANTH, H. M., 2024, Arboreal eurymeline leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) of the Indian subcontinent with description of new genera and eight new species, Zootaxa 5462 (1), pp. 1-125 : 23

Amritodus brevis Viraktamath

Figs 9A–H , 60J , 63M–P .

Amritodus brevis Viraktamath 1997: 115–116 , figs 32–41; Xue & Zhang 2020: 1446–1447, figs 4A–D, 13A–G.

Diagnosis. Male subgenital plate short about half as long as pygofer. Male style with apex not curved, setae on dorsal surface thinner and numerous. Aedeagus strongly sinuate in lateral view, preatrium slightly longer than shaft, shaft with pair of subapical triangular processes. Female sternite VII 4× as wide as medially long, lateral margins almost straight, lateral lobes directed posteriorly, posterior median margin with one additional lobe on either side of median line ( Fig. 60J ).

Material examined. HOLOTYPPE ♂, INDIA: Mizoram: Silchar, Gunghur , 18.xi.1981, C.S. Wesley Coll. ( UASB). Paratype 1♀, data as for holotype ( UASB).

Remarks. Viraktamath (1997) adequately described the species and also illustrated the male genitalia. Xue et al. (2020) diagnosed the species and illustrated the male and female genitalia based on specimens collected from China.

Figures

FIGURES 9A–H. Amritodus brevis Viraktamath, holotype male: A–B, dorsal and lateral views; C, face; D, label data; E, metabasitarsomere, ventral view; F, male genital capsule, lateral view; G, style, connective and aedeagus, lateral view; H, styles, connective and aedeagus, dorsal view.

FIGURES 60A–O. Idiocerini and Megipocerini of the Indian subcontinent, forewings (A–F) and female sternite VII (G– O). A, Matangia indica; B, Metidiocerus deodarae; C, Periacerus lalithae; D, Ulavius anasuyae; E, Busonia distanti; F, B. manipurensis; G, Balocha astuta; H, B. fuscolinea; I, Amritodus atkinsoni; J, A. brevis; K, A. quinquepunctatus; L, A. saeedi; M, Bellacerus bellus; N, Busoniomimus manjunathi; O, B. mudigerensis.

FIGURES 63A–P. Balocerini and Idiocerini of the Indian subcontinent, female valvula I, magnified view and valvula II, magnified view: A–D, Balocha astuta; E–H, B. fuscolinea; I–L, Amritodus atkinsoni; M–P, A. brevis.