Species Maiestas irwini Duan, Dietrich & Zhang, 2017

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• Maiestas irwini Duan, Y., Dietrich, C.H. & Zhang, Y.L. 2017. A new species of the leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant from Australia (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae, Deltocephalini). ZooKeys 646: 73–78 [75].
  Zoobank Registration Number:http://zoobank.org/439E3157-1A52-4847-9A0D-13D25C053D2C

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T234944 ♂ (coll: 14.ix.–12.x.1982, malaise trap (ex QDPI).), 4km up Black Mountain Road, via Kuranda, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species differs from other Australian species of Maiestas in coloration and in the structures of the male genitalia. The species was named for M. E. Irwin who collected much of the type series.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: [POACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Ground color stramineous marked with orange and fuscous. Fore margin of head with fuscous marks and light fasciae extending to scutellum, coronal sulcus prominent. Face mostly brown, with paired white arcs corresponding to muscle scars of frontoclypeus. Pronotum with three pairs of fasciae. Scutellum with three fasciae. Forewing pale ochraceous, with two distinct, irregular fuscous maculae, one at the apex of the clavus and the other at the base of the central anteapical cell, veins contrastingly pale, veins of apex bordered with fuscous. Mesosternum light brown. Femora and tibiae with fuscous marks. Head wider than pronotum, crown depressed, anterior margin distinctly angulate in dorsal view, slightly longer than distance between eyes. Ocellus closely adjacent to eye on anterior margin of vertex. Anteclypeus tapering toward the apex, not extended to ventral margin of face. Lorum semicircular, narrower than anteclypeus, well separated from lateral margin of face. Pronotum nearly as long as vertex. Forewing macropterous, with four apical and three anteapical cells, inner anteapical cell open basally, costal area with one cross vein. Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe with numerous apical macrosetae, longer than its height, hind margin rounded. Subgenital plate subtriangular, lateral margin convex, length nearly as long as width. Valve rectangular. Style preapical lobe angulated, apophysis digitate, slightly laterally curved. Connective slightly longer than aedeagus. Aedeagal shaft short, stout, more or less of uniform width, curved dorsally with ventral margin produced into small spine beyond gonopore (Duan, Dietrich & Zhang 2017).

 

ID Keys

Duan, Dietrich & Zhang 2017: 75

 

Diagnosis References

Duan, Y., Dietrich, C.H. & Zhang, Y.L. 2017. A new species of the leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant from Australia (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae, Deltocephalini). ZooKeys 646: 73–78 [75–76]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	21-Jan-2017	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher