Amritodus flavoscutatus Cai & Shen, 1998: 33

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 : 1460-1461

Amritodus flavoscutatus Cai & Shen, 1998: 33 , fig. 7.

Diagnosis: Crown with a pair of black spots. Pronotum finely rugose. Anteclypeus elevated and surpassing apex of gena. Pygofer inner process reaching caudal margin of pygofer. Style tapering apically. Aedeagal shaft straight in lateral view. Aedeagal dorsal apodeme and preatrium short.

Description: Body brown. Base of face with black stripe in middle; ocelli with black markings around; lorum, anteclypeus, antennal pits and apical half of frontoclypeus black; frontoclypeus with several black markings on either side ( Fig. 11D). Pronotum with a pair of semicircular black markings on anterior margin, and lateral area black. Mesoscutum mostly black; scutellum yellowish ( Fig. 11C). Forewing veins dark brown and brownish, with black markings on subcostal margin ( Fig. 11N).

Female colour similar to male, but base of face with short brown stripe in middle; apical half of lorum, lateral and anterior margin of frontoclypeus black; pronotum with brown markings ( Fig. 11E,F).

Male abdomen with large tergal apodemes, length shorter than one segment long, separated mesally by a V-shaped notch; sternal apodemes small, less than one segment long ( Fig. 20B, C).

Pygofer caudal margin rounded, laterally with transverse hyaline band; with inner process arising from middle on ventral margin, reaching caudal margin. Subgenital plate slender, shorter than pygofer, apex with a few short and fine setae on ventral margin ( Fig. 20A). Connective Y-shaped.

Materials examined: Two ♂ and one ♀, China, Shaanxi Province, Huoditang , 1600 m, 7 July 2010, coll. Lin Lu ( NWAFU) ; one ♂, China, Guizhou Province, Kuankuoshui, Fenshuiling , 1180 m, 15 August 2012, coll. Yang Wang ( NWAFU) ; one ♂, China, Hubei Province, Xuanen, Chunmu , 30 July 1989, coll. Qingyao Liu ( SEMCAS) .

Distribution: China (Guizhou, Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi).