Scaphotettix Matsumura 1914
Creators: name: Huang, Yihong
name: Tang, Liuhong
name: Huang, Yingying
name: Webb, Michael D.
name: Duan, Yani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Scaphotettix

description: Scaphotettix Matsumura, 2014
Scaphotettix Matsumura, 1914: 227; Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013: 118.
Type species: Scaphotettix viridis Matsumura, 1914.
Diagnosis. Body dorsoventrally flattened. Head slightly narrower to slightly wider than pronotum; crown longer medially than length next to eye; ocelli on anterior margin of crown, close to eye; face angularly convex dorsally in profile; anteclypeus narrowing towards apex; antennae arising near upper corners of eye. Forewing with outer subapical cell extended to wing margin. Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe elongate, with one or two elongate processes at mid-ventral margin, extending caudally, rarely curved medially (S. aurantiacus), dorsal margin rarely with a short internal process on each side (S. aurantiacus). Subgential plate long-triangular with uniseriate row of macrosetae on lateral margin. Style elongate and linear, with margin between inner and outer basal arms strongly oblique; preapical lobe undeveloped; apical process tapered to acute or rounded apex, short and curved laterally, rarely elongate and curved medially (S. aurantiacus). Connective with arms broadly arched, stem reduced, connective rarely trapezoidal (S. aurantiacus). Aedeagal shaft simple, curved dorsally with or without processes; gonopore apical on ventral surface; rarely with distinct basal apodeme and preatrium present (S. aurantiacus).
Distribution. Oriental and Pacific region.
Remarks. Scaphotettix was revised by Dai et al. (2009) who adequately described the genus; all previously described species except the type species were removed from the genus and three species were described as new. Subsequently, Zahniser & Dietrich (2013) transferred the genus from Athysanini to Mukariini.
Checklist to species of Scaphotettix Matsumura, 2014
aurantiacus sp. nov. China.
bispinosus Dai & Zhang (in Dai, Viraktamath, Zhang & Webb, 2009: 657, Fig. 1A, E, Fig. 2). China.
curvatus Dmitriev (in Viraktamath & Webb, 2019: 27, Fig. 4O–R, Fig. 6F–G, Fig. 35A–H). India.
pectinatus Dai & Zhang (in Dai, Viraktamath, Zhang & Webb, 2009: 659, Fig. 1C, G, Fig. 4). Vietnam.
striatus Dai & Zhang (in Dai, Viraktamath, Zhang & Webb, 2009: 658–659, Fig. 1B, F, Fig. 3). China, Java.
viridis Matsumura, 1914: 227, 228, Figs 10, 1–4; Knight & Webb, 2002: 268–269, Figs 1 –11; Dai, Viraktamath, Zhang & Webb, 2009: 659, Fig. 1D, h, Fig. 5. China, India.
Key to species of Scaphotettix Matsumura, 2014
Note. The key is modified from Dai et al. (2009) and Viraktamath & Webb (2019).
1. Head and pronotum with longitudinal stripes (Fig. 3C)........................................................ 2
− Head and pronotum without longitudinal stripes; forewing with apical black spot................................... 5
2. Forewing without apical black spot....................................................................... 3
− Forewing with apical black spot (see Viraktamath & Webb (2019), Fig. 14J)............................... S. curvatus
3. Face as long as wide (Fig. 3D). Aedeagus with a short robust process from base of shaft ventrally (Fig. 3J)................................................................................................. S. aurantiacus sp. nov.
− Face wider than long. Aedeagus without a short robust process from base of shaft ventrally........................... 4
4. Aedeagal shaft with lateral marginal row of teeth (see Dai et al. (2009), Fig. 4G, H)....................... S. pectinatus
− Aedeagal shaft without teeth (see Dai et al. (2009), Fig. 3G, H).......................................... S. striatus
5. Scutellum with brown longitudinal stripes; aedeagal shaft with a pair of elongate processes sub-basally (see Dai et al. (2009), Fig. 2H, I).................................................................................. S. bispinosus
− Scutellum without marking; aedeagal shaft without processes (see Dai et al. (2009), Fig. 5G, H). ….............. S. viridis
description: Published as part of Huang, Yihong, Tang, Liuhong, Huang, Yingying, Webb, Michael D. & Duan, Yani, 2025, Two new bamboo feeding leafhopper species of the subfamily Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from China, pp. 287-304 in Zootaxa 5588 (2) on pages 293-295, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5588.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/14896497