Maiestas dorsalis (Motschulsky)

Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011, Review of the Deltocephalus group of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, Zootaxa 2870, pp. 1-47 : 10-11

Maiestas dorsalis (Motschulsky)

( Figs 6 , 7 ; Plate I: H; Plate V: D; Plate VI: D)

Deltocephalus dorsalis Motschulsky, 1859: 114 ; Kuoh, 1966, Fig. 116. Deltocephalus (Recilia) dorsalis, Dash & Viraktamath, 1998: 27 , Figs 202–207. Maiestas dorsalis, Webb & Viraktamath, 2009: 16 , Fig. 36.

Material examined. China, Shaanxi Prov.: 10ɗɗ, 29ΨΨ, Xixiang County, October 1980, coll. Liu Shaoyou; Hainan Prov.: 1ɗ, 1Ψ, Jianfengling, 25 August 2002, coll. Wang Zongqing, Che Yanli & Wang Peiming; 1Ψ, Maoa Town, 3 August 2010, coll. Sun Jing. All NWAFU.

Distribution. Palaearctic and Oriental Region.

Remarks. This species is vector of rice orange leaf disease, rice tungro bacilliform virus disease, rice dwarf virus disease and rice tungro spherical virus disease.

Figures

FIGURE 6. M. dorsalis (Motschulsky) (after Li et al., 1979). A: habitus, dorsal view; B: forewing; C: hindwing.

FIGURE 7. M. dorsalis (Motschulsky). D: face; E: male pygofer lobe, lateral view; F: subgenital plate, ventral view; G: style, dorsal view; H: valve, ventral view; I & J: aedeagus and connective, dorsal and lateral view.