Maiestas dorsalis (Motschulsky)

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Maiestas dorsalis (Motschulsky) . Comb. nov. ( Fig. 36).

Deltocephalus dorsalis Motschulsky, 1859: 114 , Sri Lanka; Evans, 1966: 243, fig. 34I, Borneo, Australia.

Deltocephalus fulguralis Matsumura, 1902: 391 , Japan, Sri Lanka, India. Synonymised by Melichar,

1903: 200.

Inazuma dorsalis (Motschulsky) , Ishihara, 1953: 48, pl. 4, fig. 1, pl. 17, fig. 1, Japan.

Recilia dorsalis (Motschulsky) , Wilson & Claridge, 1991: 92, figs 3.243.

Deltocephalus (Recilia) dorsalis (Motschulsky) , Dash & Viraktamath, 1998: 27, figs 202–207, India.

Remarks. This species, which is the type species of Inazuma , is widespread in Asia and the Pacific on rice. It is easily recognised by its distinctive forewing markings ( Fig. 36o). Whilst retaining Inazuma as a valid taxon (as a subgenenus of Recilia ) Kwon & Lee (1979) stated: “there are not so much remarkable independent generic characters as a subgenus in Inazuma ”. In fact the genus was only distinguished by these authors by a rather vague reference to a difference in the shape of the style. From our observations the style has a digitate apical process and short subapical lobe ( Fig. 36f), not known to us in previous figures. This form of the style in dorsalis is just one type of a very variably shaped structure in the group as a whole (see remarks under Maiestas above).