Maiestas albomaculata (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 : 403

Maiestas albomaculata (Dash & Viraktamath)

( Figs 1A–D )

Deltocephalus (Recilia) albomaculatus Dash & Viraktamath, 1998: 12 , figs 29–34.

Maiestas albomaculata, Webb & Viraktamath, 2009: 21 , comb. nov.

Maiestas albomaculata, Naveed et al., 2019: 287 , figs 1E–I, 3H–I.

Material examined. No material examined.

Distribution. Pakistan, India.

Remarks. This species (originally described from India) differs from other species of Maiestas in color (see key) and male genitalia including dorso-lateral laminate serrations of the aedeagal shaft. It was first recorded from Pakistan by Naveed et al. (2019) from two localities in Punjab.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Maiestas species.A–D, M. albomaculata (Dash & Viraktamath) (after Naveed et al., 2019) A: habitus, dorsal view; B: face; C: connective and aedeagus, dorsal view; D: connective and aedeagus, lateral view; E, M. indica (Singh-Pruthi) (after Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): connective and aedeagus, lateral view.