Scytachile, Shcherbakov, 2011

Shcherbakov, Dmitry E., 2011, New and little-known families of Hemiptera Cicadomorpha from the Triassic of Central Asia — early analogs of treehoppers and planthoppers, Zootaxa 2836, pp. 1-26 : 21

Scytachile gen. nov.

Type species. Scytachile emeljanovi sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Precostal carina narrow and deflected dorsad distally; C distinctly elbowed near base. Basal cell much narrowed apically, CuA elbowed at apex of basal cell and arched backwards beyond. M stem nearly equidistant between RP and CuA1. Nodal mcu short, joining MP and CuA1 elbowed towards each other. Space between CuA1 and CuA2 narrowed at nodal level to more than half its maximum width. 1A less than twice as close to scutellar angle as to Pcu.

Etymology. From Greek skytos (hide, skin) and generic name Achilus ; gender feminine.