Maiestas serrata, Duan, Yani & Dietrich, Christopher H., 2017

Duan, Yani & Dietrich, Christopher H., 2017, A new leafhopper species of Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Thailand, Zootaxa 4247 (1), pp. 61-64 : 61-62

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.1.7
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B36BEEB8-F2CA-44BE-86DF-EC8D4DD4040B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6046704
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D687AD-FFC2-FF81-FFA2-F8B0FB74FC0E
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Maiestas serrata
status	sp. nov.

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Maiestas serrata View in CoL sp.n. ( Figs 1–2 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 )

Length. Male: 2.5 mm.

Coloration and morphology. Ground color stramineous marked with orange and brown ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 A–D). Vertex, pronotum, mesonotum and scutellum with orange marks ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 A–C). Face mostly brown with paired white arcs corresponding to muscle scars of frontoclypeus ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 E). Forewing light brown with veins contrastingly pale, bordered with fuscous ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 A–D). Mesosternum dark brown. Femora and tibiae with fuscous marks ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 D).

Head wider than pronotum, crown depressed, anterior margin distinctly angulate in dorsal view, nearly as long as distance between eyes ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 A–B); ocellus close to adjacent eye ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 C–D). Antenna longer than head width; anteclypeus parallel-sided, not extended to ventral margin of face; lorum semicircular, slightly narrower than anteclypeus, well separated from lateral margin of face ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 E). Pronotum nearly as long as vertex. Forewing macropterous, with four apical and three anteapical cells, inner anteapical cell closed basally ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 A–D).

Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe with numerous apical macrosetae, hind margin rounded ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 A–B). Subgenital plate subtriangular, lateral margin weakly incurved, apex acute ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 C). Style with long articulatory arm, preapical lobe angulate, apophysis digitate, apex acute, slightly laterally curved ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 D). Connective obviously shorter than aedeagus. Aedeagal shaft elongate and very narrow, straight in lateral view with apex upturned and serrate laterally ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 E–F).

Material examined. Holotype: male, pinned, with genitalia in a separate microvial, Thailand: Ubon Ratchathani Pha Taem NP Rong Hi Noy, 15° 40′ 021" N, 105° 30′ 440" E, 240 m, malaise trap, 1–7 i 2007, Thongkam & Pakdee, leg. T1476 ( QSBG) . Paratype: 1 male, pinned, with genitalia in a separate microvial, Thailand: Ubon Ratchathani Pha Taem NP Khua Nang Nee, 15° 24′ 285" N, 105° 30′ 855" E, 193 m, malaise, 24 ii–3 iii 2007, Bunlu Subsiri, leg. T1674 ( INHS) .

Remarks. This species will run to M. oryzae (Matsumura) in the key of Zhang & Duan (2011) and resembles that species in having the inner anteapical cell of the forewing closed, the pygofer lobe rounded and the aedeagus somewhat elongated and lacking a heel at the base of the shaft. It is also similar to M. scalpella Zhang & Duan and M. chalami Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev in the shape of the aedeagus but differs from the former in having the forewing without a dark brown spot and the inner anteapical cell closed basally ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 A–D), the subgenital plate shorter ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 C), the apex of the style more acute ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 D), and the connective shorter; and from the latter in having the vertex and forewing without dark brown maculations ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 A–D).