Maiestas sinuata Shah & Duan, 2021

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 : 406-408

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5635940
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scientific name	Maiestas sinuata Shah & Duan
status	sp. nov.

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Maiestas sinuata Shah & Duan View in CoL sp. n.

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Length. Male: 3.3mm.

Description. Coloration. Yellowish brown ( Fig. 3A–B View FIGURE 3 ). Head and thorax creamy white with yellow markings ( Fig. 3A, 3C View FIGURE 3 ). Crown with eight small, dark brownish marks, with ochraceous patches on each side of median longitudinal suture ( Fig. 3A, 3C View FIGURE 3 ). Pronotum with four yellow longitudinal stripes ( Fig. 3A, 3C View FIGURE 3 ). Mesonotum and scutellum pale with yellowish brown spots ( Fig. 3A, 3C View FIGURE 3 ). Eye color tinged with yellowish grey. Ocellus white ( Fig. 3A–C View FIGURE 3 ). Frontoclypeus dark brown with pale transverse stripes ( Fig. 3D View FIGURE 3 ). Legs marked with dark brown ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ). Forewing brown, with prominent pale venation ( Fig. 3A–B View FIGURE 3 ).

Morphology. Head slightly wider than pronotum and slightly longer than width between eyes ( Fig. 3A, 3C View FIGURE 3 ). Ocellus next to eye on anterior margin ( Fig. 3A–C View FIGURE 3 ). Pronotum median length almost equal to the median length of crown ( Fig. 3A, 3C View FIGURE 3 ). Forewing macropterous, exceeding abdomen when at rest ( Fig. 3A–B View FIGURE 3 ).

Male genitalia. Pygofer side longer than height in lateral aspect with rounded apical margin ( Fig. 3E View FIGURE 3 ). Subgenital plate moderately long, triangular, with row of marginal uniseriate macrosetae ( Fig. 3F View FIGURE 3 ). Style narrow, with prominent preapical shoulder; apex digitate, slightly curved laterally ( Fig. 3F View FIGURE 3 ). Connective almost equal in length to aedeagus ( Fig. 3G–H View FIGURE 3 ). Aedeagal shaft in dorsal view broad at base ( Fig. 3G View FIGURE 3 ), gradually tapered towards pointed apex; in lateral view, slightly sinuate with basal half concave ventrally and apical half concave dorsally, finely tapered from base to apex ( Fig. 3H View FIGURE 3 ).

Material examined. Holotype ♂: Pakistan: Punjab, Kahuta , 33°35′28.3776 N, 73°22′12.234 E, sweep net, 25 July 2018, coll. Bismillah Shah ( AAU). GoogleMaps

Distribution. Pakistan.

Etymology. The species named for the slightly sinuate aedeagal shaft in lateral view.

Remarks. This species has a similar sinuate aedeagal shaft to M. chandrai Fletcher & Dai (2019) (replacement name for M. viraktamathi Fletcher & Dai, 2018 ), from Australia, but differs from the latter species in external appearance and other genitalia structures, i.e., the subgenital plate with apical fine setae, style with apical process thicker and aedeagus lacking a ventrobasal “heel”, the latter feature placing M. chandrai in the M. albomaculatus group of Dash & Viraktamath (1998).