Species Maiestas samuelsoni (Knight, 1976)

Maiestas samuelsoni (Knight), adult.

© Copyright Birgit Rhode, NZAC, Auckland.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Deltocephalus samuelsoni Knight, W.J. 1976. The leafhoppers of Lord Howe, Norfolk, Kermadec, and Chatham Islands and their relationship to the fauna of New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 3: 89–98 [96].

  Type data:

   Holotype NZAC ♂ (coll: 18.x.1962, G.A. Samuelson, 75 m, sweeping clover, Cynodon and Kyllingia), North Terrace, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand.

Generic Combinations

• Maiestas samuelsoni (Knight, 1976). —
  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 [18]

Introduction

This small pale brown leafhopper was described from the Kermadec Islands of New Zealand as well as from Norfolk Island. It is the only Maiestas known from Norfolk Island.

Distribution

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Diagnosis

This species is similar to Maiestas knighti Webb & Viraktamath but has the vertex less produced medially and with the anterior margin less angulate, the dark brown on the anterior margin less developed, the subgenital plates more elongate with the lateral margin shallowly concave, and the aedeagus with the apical prolongation more pronounced (Knight 1976). It is also the only species of the genus recorded from Norfolk Island.

Diagnosis References

Knight, W.J. 1976. The leafhoppers of Lord Howe, Norfolk, Kermadec, and Chatham Islands and their relationship to the fauna of New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 3: 89–98 [96–97]

History of changes