Maiestas tareni (Dash & Viraktamath)

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 : 408

Maiestas tareni (Dash & Viraktamath)

( Fig. 5 )

Deltocephalus (Recilia) tareni Dash & Viraktamath, 1995: 74–76 , figs 1–15; Dash & Viraktamath, 1998: 16, figs 78–84. Maiestas tareni, Webb & Viraktamath, 2009: 22 , comb. nov.; Khatri & Webb, 2010: 11, plate 2d, fig. 11; Naveed et al., 2019:

290, figs 2G–I, 3N–O).

Material examined. Pakistan: Punjab: 1♂, Islamabad , 33°42′34.3908 N, 73°9′27.0144 E, sweep net, 26 July 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ( AAU) ; 1♂ Rawalpindi, viii.1985, C. & L. O’Brien ( BMNH) .

Distribution. Pakistan, China, India.

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by its relatively straight and stout style apical apophysis with serrated inner margin and by the aedeagus in lateral view evenly tapered from base to apex and relatively straight. Some slight differences are shown between the specimens studied here ( Figs 5A–H , Punjab) and between some published figures ( Figs 5I–T ) and the original description ( Figs 5U–Z ), suggesting that more than one species may be present.

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FIGURE 5. Maiestas tareni (Dash & Viraktamath). A–H: this study, 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 styles, dorsal view; G & H: connective and aedeagus, dorsal and lateral view; I–N: after Zhang & Duan, 2011, I: habitus, dorsal view; J: male pygofer lobe, lateral view; K: subgenital plate, ventral view; L: style, dorsal view; M & N: connective and aedeagus, dorsal and lateral view; O–T: after Khatri & Webb, 2010, O: habitus, dorsal view; P: head and thorax, dorsal view; Q: subgenital plate, ventral view; R: style, dorsal view; S & T: connective and aedeagus, dorsal and lateral view; U–Z: after Dash & Viraktamath, 1995, U: head and thorax, dorsal view; V: face; W: subgenital plates and valve, dorsal view; X: style, dorsal view; Y & Z: connective and aedeagus, dorsal and lateral view respectively.