Maiestas subviridis (Metcalf)

Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D. & Duan, Yani, 2021, Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records, Zootaxa 5060 (3), pp. 401-416 : 408

Maiestas subviridis (Metcalf)

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Stirellus subviridis Metcalf, 1946: 125 .

Deltocephalus (Recilia) subviridis, Dash & Viraktamath, 1998: 24 , figs 166–172.

Maiestas subviridis, Webb & Viraktamath, 2009: 19 , fig. 40, comb. nov.; Naveed et al., 2019: 287.

Maiestas subviridis, Khatri & Webb, 2010: 11 , Plate 2b–c, fig. 12; Zhang & Duan, 2011: 19 , figs 17, Plate II: H.

Material examined. Pakistan: several specimens (male and female), Sindh Prov., Tando Jam , 11.v.07 ( BMNH) .

Distribution. Pakistan, India, China, Pacific.

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the rounded apex of the aedeagus with a very short apical spine (more easily seen at high magnification and in ventral view). In Pakistan material there is a pair of dark patches posteriorly on the vertex and a sub-brachypterous female form ( Figs 4A, 4B ); for details, see Khatri & Webb, 2010: 11. The material listed by Khatri & Webb (2010) was collected on 11.v.07, not 28.viii.07 (paddy), as stated. These authors also figured a specimen from Guddo Barrage with a somewhat more elongate aedeagus but it is difficult to judge whether this specimen is the same species as now only the genitalia remain (BMNH).

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FIGURE 4. Maiestas species. A–E, M. subviridis (Metcalf) (after Khatri & Webb, 2010) A–B: habitus (macropterus and subbrachypterus respectively), dorsal view; C: subgenital plate, ventral view; D: aedeagus, lateral view; E: aedeagus, dorsal view; F–L, M. pruthii (Metcalf) (after Dash & Viraktamath, 1998) F: habitus, dorsal view; G: habitus, lateral view; H: face; I: style, dorsal view; J: connective and aedeagus, ventral view; K; apex of aedeagus, lateral view; L: connective and aedeagus, lateral view.