Amritodus Anufriev, 1970: 376

Xue, Qingquan & Zhang, Yalin, 2020, Phylogeny and revision of the Oriental leafhopper genus Amritodus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerini), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189, pp. 1438-1463 : 1445

Amritodus Anufriev, 1970: 376 .

Type species: Idiocerus atkinsoni Lethierry, 1889 ; by original designation.

Diagnosis: Body generally yellowish brown or brown. Crown with a pair of black spots on either side of midline. Face yellowish or brownish. Pronotum with a pair of black markings on anterior margin. Head wider than pronotum. Crown finely rugose. Head wider than long, ocelli closer to eyes than to each other; lora broad; anteclypeus apex wider than base; rostrum broadened apically. Combined length of mesoscutum and scutellum longer than pronotum, shagreen. Forewing with m-cu1 cross-vein, without r-m1 and m-cu2 cross-veins. Hind femur with 2 + 1 apical setae. Hind tibiae with 18–20 setae on row PD, six setae on AD and six to eight setae on row AV. Hind basitarsus with four platellae. Male pygofer longer than height, with a pair of inner processes on the ventral margin; apical half of inner processes obviously curved dorsad. Subgenital plate with hair-like setae on dorsal and ventral margin. Style curved dorsally, with dense and short setae on dorsal margin. Aedeagus S-shaped, preatrium well developed, as long as or longer than shaft; dorsal apodeme developed; gonopore subapical on ventral margin.

Female seventh sternite wider than long, with caudal margin obviously concave. Ovipositor extending beyond pygofer. First valvulae apical one-third to one-quarter curved dorsad, apex attenuated, with sculpture strigate. Second valvulae curved dorsally; dorsal margin with more than ten teeth.

Distribution: Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Remarks: Amritodus is similar to Idioscopus , but differs from the latter in having an elongated aedeagal preatrium, and the aedeagal shaft short and S-shaped without a long process near the apex.