Saccharodite is a large genus of planthoppers from the family Derbidae, tribe Rhotanini, with more than 100 species.

The original text of the latter in French is: "D'un sanguin brilliant; jambes jaunâtres testacées, teintés de sanguin; élytres hyalines, très faiblement enfumées ça et la, veins incolores, sauf qu'une partie de la ligne sousapicale avec les parties des veins longitudinales immédiatement contigues, sons sanguines.

In his re-description Fennah refers to the hyaline forewings and the bright red body mentioned by Kirkaldy as diagnostic characters for the type species.

The triangular cell near the hindwing of the forewing is unique in the tribe Rhotanini and is the main diagnostic character of the genus in combination with 2 other characters, the 4 costal cells and for most species the 6 veins of the cubitus-media complex reaching the margin at the end of the forewings.

[4] It has a wide distribution range which includes the type locality (Java, Indonesia) of S. sanguinea (see illustration above).

[15] In contrast, according to Fennah's re-description, most species of Saccharodite have broader and glassy, unpowdered forewings.

However, not all species have red marks and it is unusual that most parts of the head and abdomen are blood-red like in S. sanguinea and S. coccinea.

In frontal view the facial carinae meet at the junction of vertex and face in almost all species of Saccharodite.

In all species of the genus which have been observed alive, the wings are held in a common plane like house flies.

It is assumed that the nymphal stages live in decaying organic matter like other derbids, feeding on fungi.