Maiestas knighti Webb &Viraktamath

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 : 432-433

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.3.8
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5326099
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Maiestas knighti Webb &Viraktamath
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Maiestas knighti Webb &Viraktamath View in CoL , Knight’s grass leafhopper

Deltocephalus hospes Kirkaldy View in CoL , sensu Knight, 1975: 202, misidentification.

Deltocephalus coronifer Marshall , sensu Evans 1966, 240, misidentification.

Recilia hospes (Kirkaldy) View in CoL , Fletcher & Condello, 1993: 43, misidentification.

Maiestas knighti Webb & Viraktamath 2009: 43 View in CoL View Cited Treatment

Diagnosis. This species shares the presence of a short apical aedeagal process and a short, laterally curved and apically acute paramere process with M. samuelsoni from which it differs by the shape of the subgenital plates which are ovoid in M. knighti but narrow triangular in M. samuelsoni .

Distribution. Australia (ACT, NSW, NT, Tas, Vic, WA), New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Guam

Known hosts. Knight (1975) recorded the species in New Zealand from sedges and low shrubs.