Maiestas knighti Webb &Viraktamath, Knight’s grass leafhopper

Deltocephalus hospes Kirkaldy, sensu Knight, 1975: 202, misidentification.

Deltocephalus coronifer Marshall, sensu Evans 1966, 240, misidentification.

Recilia hospes (Kirkaldy), Fletcher & Condello, 1993: 43, misidentification.

Maiestas knighti Webb & Viraktamath 2009: 43

Diagnosis. This species shares the presence of a short apical aedeagal process and a short, laterally curved and apically acute paramere process with M. samuelsoni from which it differs by the shape of the subgenital plates which are ovoid in M. knighti but narrow triangular in M. samuelsoni .

Distribution. Australia (ACT, NSW, NT, Tas, Vic, WA), New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Guam

Known hosts. Knight (1975) recorded the species in New Zealand from sedges and low shrubs.