Maiestas Distant, 1917

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 : 402

Maiestas Distant, 1917

Maiestas Distant, 1917: 312 (

Type species: Maiestas illustris Distant, 1917 ).

For full details of synonymy, see Webb & Viraktamath, 2009: 14–15.

Diagnosis. Generally pale brown with c rown often with line of submarginal angular spots and pronotum often with longitudinal stramineous bands ( Fig 1A ), sometimes without these markings ( Fig. 2A ). Crown triangularly produced, ocellus usually close to eye on anterior margin. Forewing with three anteapical cells, inner cell open. Pygofer without appendage. Subgenital plate short and ovate with outer margin convex to slightly concave; with uniseriate row of macrosetae laterally, sometimes with apical tuft of fine setae. Connective linear with arms longer than stem. Aedeagus fused to connective; shaft elongate, weakly curved dorsally, usually without processes, gonopore apical on dorsal surface, indistinct.

Distribution. Old World.

Remarks. Maiestas was revised by Webb & Viraktamath (2009). The genus is similar externally to Deltocephalus Burmeister and Recilia but differs by the shape of the aedeagus; in Maiestas the shaft is boat-shaped, at most weekly curved dorsally, sometimes with an apical ventral spine-like process and gonopore apical on dorsal surface. To the previous treatment of the genus from Pakistan ( Naveed et al., 2019), a new species and two new country records are added in the present work, together with two species of uncertain identity (see Maiestas spp ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Maiestas species.A–D, M. albomaculata (Dash & Viraktamath) (after Naveed et al., 2019) A: habitus, dorsal view; B: face; C: connective and aedeagus, dorsal view; D: connective and aedeagus, lateral view; E, M. indica (Singh-Pruthi) (after Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): connective and aedeagus, lateral view.

FIGURE 2. Maiestas maculata (Singh-Pruthi). A: habitus, dorsal view; B: habitus, lateral view; C: head and thorax, dorsal view; D: face; E: male genital capsule, lateral view; F: subgenital plate, valve and style, dorsal view; G: connective, dorsal view (detached from aedeagus); H: aedeagus, dorsal view; I: aedeagus, lateral view.