Maiestas Distant

Duan, Yani, Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zhang, Yalin, 2017, A new species of the leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant from Australia (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae, Deltocephalini), ZooKeys 646, pp. 73-78 : 74-75

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.646.10912

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8A1BC92F-79A9-4440-835E-037E98020EC2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C29C39D3-BAC3-8C10-0EA1-70131DD9D29B

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scientific name

Maiestas Distant
status

 

Maiestas Distant View in CoL

Maiestas Distant, 1917: 312. Type species: Maiestas illustris Distant, 1917, by monotypy.

Togacephalus Matsumura, 1940: 38. Type species: Deltocephalus distincta Motschulsky, 1859, by original designation.

Inazuma Ishihara, 1953: 15. Type species: Deltocephalus dorsalis Motschulsky, 1859, by original designation.

Inemadara Ishihara, 1953: 48. Type species: Deltocephalus oryzae Matsumura, 1902, by original designation.

Insulanus Linnavuori, 1960: 303. Type species: Stirellus subviridis Metcalf, 1946, by original designation.

Distribution.

The Old World.

Checklist of species of Maiestas Distant from the Australian region

Note: see Fletcher (2016) for full synonymy.

Maiestas dorsalis (Motschulsky, 1859) (Qld, NT, NSW, Oriental region)

Maiestas irwini sp. n. (Qld)

Maiestas knighti Webb & Viraktamath, 2009 (ACT, NSW, NT, Tas, Vic, WA, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Guam)

Maiestas lucindae (Kirkaldy, 1907) (Qld)

Maiestas samuelsoni (Knight, 1976) (Norfolk Island, New Zealand (Kermadec Islands), Fiji, New Caledonia)

Maiestas vetus (Knight, 1975) (ACT, NSW, NT, Vic, WA, NZ)

Key to species of Maiestas Distant from the Australian region (males)

Note: male genitalia of Maiestas lucindae is unknown and this species is therefore omitted from the key.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae