Maiestas trispinosa (Dash & Viraktamath)

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 : 408-412

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scientific name	Maiestas trispinosa (Dash & Viraktamath)
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Maiestas trispinosa (Dash & Viraktamath) View in CoL n. rec.

( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 )

Deltocephalus (Recilia) trispinosus Dash & Viraktamath, 1998: 35 View in CoL , figs 296–304 Maiestas trispinosa, Webb & Viraktamath, 2009: 38 View in CoL , comb. nov.

Length. Male: 4.1mm.

Description. Coloration. Yellowish brown ( Fig. 6A–D View FIGURE 6 ). Head and thorax pale yellow ( Fig. 6A, 6C View FIGURE 6 ). Crown with six small, dark brownish marks at anterior margin and some yellowish brown patches on each side of mid-line ( Fig. 6A, 6C View FIGURE 6 ). Pronotum with ochraceous shades and six yellow brown longitudinal stripes ( Fig. 6A, 6C View FIGURE 6 ). Mesonotum and scutellum pale with yellowish brown spots ( Fig. 6A, 6C View FIGURE 6 ). Eye tinged with yellowish brown ( Fig. 6A–D View FIGURE 6 ). Frontoclypeus chocolate brown with pale transverse stripes ( Fig. 6D View FIGURE 6 ). Leg marked with dark brown ( Fig. 6B View FIGURE 6 ). Forewing light brown, with prominent pale venation ( Fig. 6A–B View FIGURE 6 ).

Morphology. Head slightly wider than pronotum, almost equal in length to width between eyes ( Fig. 6A, 6C View FIGURE 6 ). Ocellus next to eye on anterior margin. Pronotum median length almost equal to the median length of crown ( Fig. 6A, 6C View FIGURE 6 ). Forewing macropterous, almost same length as hind wings ( Fig. 6A–B View FIGURE 6 ).

Male genitalia. Pygofer quadrate ( Fig. 6E View FIGURE 6 ). Subgenital plate moderately long, triangular, lateral margins almost straight, with a row of uniseriate macrosetae, apically rounded and curved dorsad ( Fig. 6F View FIGURE 6 ). Valve triangular ( Fig. 6F View FIGURE 6 ). Style narrow, with prominent preapical shoulder, apex digitate and sinuate ( Fig. 6F View FIGURE 6 ). Connective almost equal in length to aedeagus ( Fig. 6G–I View FIGURE 6 ). Aedeagal shaft extended far beyond pygofer, curved ventrally ( Fig. 6E View FIGURE 6 ); shaft compressed dorsoventrally, in lateral view broader in basal two thirds then abruptly narrowed to acute apex, in dorsoventral view with needle-like apex ( Fig. 6G–H View FIGURE 6 ); pair of subapical spine-like lateral processes adpressed to shaft ( Fig. 6G–H View FIGURE 6 ).

Material examined. Pakistan: Punjab: 2♂♂, Bansra Gali , 33°54′17.532 N, 73°22′13.9656 E, sweep net, 1 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ( AAU) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Pakistan (new record), India.

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the lateral spine-like processes of the aedeagus. The Pakistan specimens show very slight differences compared to the original Indian material with respect to the shape of the subgenital plates and style apical process, as seen in the original figures given by Dash & Viraktamath (1998) and images of type material sent by C. Viraktamath.