Maiestas lucindae (Kirkaldy)

Fletcher, Murray J. & Dai, Wu, 2018, Two new species of Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) with a new record from Australia, Zootaxa 4521 (3), pp. 430-440 : 433

Maiestas lucindae (Kirkaldy)

Deltocephalus lucindae Kirkaldy 1907: 58

Maiestas lucindae (Kirkaldy) , Webb & Viraktamath 2009: 19

Diagnosis. This species is only known from a female syntype and it is therefore not possible to distinguish it from other species of the genus which are characterized by the male genitalia. The female is extensively marked with brown with most cells of the tegmen margined with brown infuscation. The line of spots around the anterior margin of the vertex have anastomosed into a medially-broken broad dark band with two pale brown spots on each side. In coloration, M. lucindae resembles Recilia coronifer (Marshall) as figured by Zhang & Duan (2011: Plate 1G), a Palaearctic species which has previously been reported erroneously from Australia ( Evans 1966).

Distribution. Australia (Qld)

Notes. This species was based on a series of male and female specimens collected at Lucinda Point, N. Qld by Arthur Koebele. Fletcher & Condello (1993: 45) could only locate a single female syntype in BPB and chose not to designate it as lectotype in the hope that a male syntype will eventually be located.