Pythamus Melichar

Wang, Yang & Zhang, Yalin, 2015, Two new species in the leafhopper genus Pythamus Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae) from China, Zootaxa 4058 (3), pp. 429-436 : 430

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.3.9
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5088849
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scientific name	Pythamus Melichar
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Pythamus Melichar View in CoL

Pythamus Melichar, 1903: 161 View in CoL ; Viraktamath & Webb, 2007: 51 View Cited Treatment -61. Dussana Distant 1908: 322 View in CoL .

Type species: Pythamus dealbatus Melichar, 1903

Diagnosis. Head anteriorly triangularly produced, median and lateral margins strongly carinate, color black with offwhite or red markings on head and apex of scutellum, forewing claval veins separate throughout length, male pygofer with long ventral process.

Remarks. So far, eight known species are included in Pythamus Melichar. Two of them, P. productus Baker and P. decoratus Baker , known only from females, are uncertain in their placement ( Wei et al, 2014) and another species, P. vietnama Li & Webb , was also described based only on females. P. chiabaotawow Huang is transferred to the genus Riseveinus Li in this study. These four species are excluded from the following key.

Distribution. China, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam.