Maiestas indica (Singh-Pruthi)

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 : 403

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5635928

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Maiestas indica (Singh-Pruthi)
status

 

Maiestas indica (Singh-Pruthi) View in CoL

( Fig. 1E View FIGURE 1 )

Allophleps indica Singh-Pruthi, 1936: 120 View in CoL , fig. 132; plate 9, fig. 3.

Allophleps delhiensis Rao & Ramakrishnan, 1990: 111 View in CoL , figs 1–9. Synonymised by Dash & Viraktamath, 1998: 35.

Deltocephalus (Recilia) indicus, Dash & Viraktamath, 1998: 35–36 View in CoL , fig. 305.

Maiestas indica, Webb & Viraktamath, 2009: 21 View in CoL , comb. nov.; Naveed et al. (2019: 287).

Material examined. No material examined.

Distribution. Pakistan, India.

Remarks. This species was originally described based on both male and female specimens but a female from Pakistan “Layallpur [Faisalabad], Punjab, at light; 10.X.29 (Coll. A. Rahman)” (ZSI), was listed as the “ holotype ” together with “four other specimens from the type locality and numerous specimens from several other localities in the Indian Museum collection”. The specimens other than the female holotype may be considered paratypes but it is not clear from which specimen the male genitalia were figured and the male genitalia slide is now missing (pers. com. C. Viraktamath). Therefore, Pruthi’s figure of the male could be from a specimen either from Pakistan or India. No further material of this species from Pakistan has been studied since the original description and although the original material was examined by Dash & Viraktamath (1998), including a male paratype, their figures are from their Indian specimens (pers. com. C. Viraktamath). Despite the above uncertainties, assuming that the female holotype and the male specimen illustrated by Pruthi are conspecific, the identity of the species is clear based on the aedeagus with a distinctive large subapical ventral process ( Fig. 1E View FIGURE 1 ). The species can also be recognized by its accessary forewing cross-veins, similar to M. pruthii and Maiestas sp. 1 and Maiestas sp. 2 , but from these it also differs by its shorter head as shown in Pruthi’s original figure.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Maiestas

Loc

Maiestas indica (Singh-Pruthi)

Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D. & Duan, Yani 2021
2021
Loc

Maiestas indica

Naveed, H. & Sohail, K. & Islam, W. & Zhang, Y. & Bu, W. J. 2019: 287
Webb, M. D. & Viraktamath, C. A. 2009: 21
2009
Loc

Deltocephalus (Recilia) indicus

Dash, P. C. & Viraktamath, C. A. 1998: 36
1998
Loc

Allophleps delhiensis

Dash, P. C. & Viraktamath, C. A. 1998: 35
Rao, V. R. S. & Ramakrishnan, U. 1990: 111
1990
Loc

Allophleps indica

Singh-Pruthi, H. 1936: 120
1936
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