Species Maiestas lucindae (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Deltocephalus lucindae Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [58].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904, Koebele), Lucinda Point, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Maiestas lucindae (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Webb, M.D. & Viraktamath, C.A. 2009. Annotated check-list, generic key and new species of Old World Deltocephalini leafhoppers with nomenclatorial changes in the Deltocephalus group and other Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae). Zootaxa 2163: 1-64 [19]

 

Introduction

This species was described from a number of male and female syntypes but Fletcher & Condello (1993) were only able to find a single female syntype which they chose not to designate as lectotype in the hope that a male syntype would eventually be found. As a result, the identity of the species remains uncertain. it is certainly a species of Maiestas.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Male: white tinged with yellowish brown; frons with a dark suffused radiating pattern visible dorsally as 2 oblongs and 2 specks on the anterior margin of the vertex; margins of face brown. Pronotum and scutellum obscurely mottled. Legs annulate. Tegmina much as in Conosanus hospes. Abdomen beneath pale medianly, dark laterally. Valve pale, very large, semicircular, nearly as long as the plates, which are apparently about as long as the pygophor. Female: (of this?) darker and more suffused. Abdomen below dark fuscous. Last segment deeply roundly excavate, pygophor dark speckled with pale, a little longer than the ovipositor. Length (male) 3 7/8, (female) 5 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [58]

 

General References

Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1993. Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G. W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology 25: 35-59 [45]

 

History of changes

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05-Dec-2019		23-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		24-Jun-2011	MOVED
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