Scolopita Chou et Lei, 1997

Thai, Pham Hong & Yang, Jeng-Tze, 2009, A contribution to the Cicadidae fauna of Vietnam (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha), with one new species and twenty new records, Zootaxa 2249, pp. 1-19 : 3

Genus Scolopita Chou et Lei, 1997

Scolopita Chou et Lei, 1997 . The Cicadidae of China. Tianze Eldoneio, Hong Kong, 1997: 66.

Type species: Melampsalta mokanshanensis Ouchi, 1938 , Shanghai Sci. Inst. Jour. (Sect. III) 4: 109.

According to Chou et al., 1997, this genus with the following characteristics: head including the eyes as wide as or slightly wider than base of mesonotum. Abdomen longer than head and thorax together; tympanal coverings absent. Postclypeus with median longitudinal sulci and lateral transverse sulci. M +CU1 of tegmen as long as below margin of base cell. Uncus slender, a small hook with below end margin; the lateral processes of pseudophallobase slightly expand at the end.

This genus differs from all the others of Cicadettini in the following characteristics: base of uncus almost as wide as its apex; phallus bow-shaped; the lateral processes of pseudophallobase expand near its end. This genus resembles Rhodopsalta Dugdale in body shape. but their uncus and pseudophallobase are different in shape.