Maiestas
Creators: name: Zhang, Yalin
name: Duan, Yani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Maiestas

description: Key to species of the Maiestas from China (Males)
1. Forewing with dark zig-zag marking (Plate I: H)..................................................... M. dorsalis
- Forewing without zig-zag marking........................................................................ 2
2. Subgenital plate without macrosetae (Fig. 11 A)....................................................... M. glabra
- Subgenital plate with lateral macrosetae.................................................................... 3
3. Pygofer lobe with truncated hind margin (Fig. 30 A)........................................ M. dinghuensis sp. nov.
- Pygofer lobe with rounded hind margin.................................................................... 4
4. Inner anteapical cell closed basally........................................................................ 5
- Inner anteapical cell open basally (Fig. 33 I)................................................................ 10
5. Aedeagus with heel at base of shaft (Figs 27 E, 28E, 29G)...................................................... 6
- Aedeagus without heel at base of shaft..................................................................... 8
6. Apophysis of style thumb-like (Fig. 28 C).......................................................... M. brevicula
- Apophysis of style digitate (Figs 27 C, 29E)................................................................. 7
7. Subgenital plate with apex broadly rounded (Fig. 29 D).......................................... M. webbi sp. nov.
- Subgenital plate with apex narrowly rounded (Fig. 27 B).............................................. M. bilineata
8. Apex of aedeagal shaft with ventral triangular membranous area in lateral view (Fig. 19 F)........... M. pileiformis sp. nov.
- Apex of aedeagal shaft without triangular membranous area in lateral view........................................ 9
9. Aedeagal shaft with ventral margin extending beyond gonopore process-like (Fig. 8 C).................... M. schmidtgeni
- Aedeagal shaft with ventral margin not extending beyond gonopore process-like (Fig. 12 F).................... M. oryzae
10. Style apophysis very slender, with an acutely pointed apex (Figs 16 C, 17C)...................................... 11
- Style apophysis broad or slender with blunt apex............................................................ 12
11. Subgenital plate long, outer margin slightly concave (Fig. 16 B)...................................... M. samuelsoni
- Subgenital plate short, outer margin slightly convex (Fig. 17 B)....................................... M. subviridis
12. Style apophysis foot-like (Figs 23 C, 24E)................................................................. 13
- Style apophysis digitate................................................................................ 14
13. Aedeagal shaft subapical ventral margin serrate (Fig. 23 E)........................................ M. crura sp. nov.
- Aedeagal shaft subapical ventral margin smooth (Fig. 24 D).................................. M. rostriformis sp. nov.
14. Subgenital plate not subtriangular (Figs 9 A, 21C)........................................................... 15
- Subgenital plate subtriangular (Fig. 25 C).................................................................. 16
15. Subgenital plate elongate (Fig. 21 C)........................................................ M. remigia sp. nov.
- Subgenital plate short and broad (Fig. 9 A)......................................................... M. distincta
16. Aedeagal shaft subapical ventral margin serrate (Fig. 25 E)..................................... M. scalpella sp. nov.
- Aedeagal shaft subapical ventral margin smooth............................................................ 17
17. Aedeagal shaft widest at midlength (Fig. 34 L)...................................................... M. maculata
- Aedeagal shaft widest at base........................................................................... 18
18. Style apophysis narrow (Figs 15 D, 20C).................................................................. 19
- Style apophysis broad................................................................................. 20
19. Connective distinctively longer than aedeagus (Fig. 20 D)....................................... M. cultella sp. nov.
- Connective nearly equal in length to aedeagus (Fig. 15 F)........................................ M. xanthocephala.
20. Style apophysis short (Fig. 26 C); apex of aedeagal shaft hooked apically in lateral view (Fig. 26 E)......... M. irisa sp. nov.
- Style apophysis moderately long; aedeagal shaft not hooked apically in lateral view................................ 21
21. Forewing with brown spot on clavus (Plate II: B).............................................. M. obongsanensis
- Forewing without brown spot on clavus................................................................... 22
22. Connective distinctively longer than aedeagus (Fig. 22 D)................................... M. pararemigia sp. nov.
- Connective nearly equal in length to aedeagus.............................................................. 23
23. Subgenital plate lateral margin distinctly convex (Fig. 18 B)............................................. M. tareni
- Subgenital plate lateral margin slightly convex............................................................. 24
24. Aedeagal shaft elongate (Figs 13 H, 14D).................................................................. 25
- Aedeagal shaft broad (Figs 31 B, 32E).................................................................... 26
25. Vertex slightly longer medially than next to eye and slightly shorter than length of pronotum (Plate II: D)....... M. latifrons
- Vertex distinctly longer medially than next to eye and slightly shorter than length of pronotum (Plate II: E)..................................................................................................... M. heuksandoensis
26. Style apophysis not swollen in middle (Figs 31 D, 31E)............................................... M. horvathi
- Style apophysis swollen in middle (Figs 32B, 32C)............................................. M. yangae sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011, Review of the Deltocephalus group of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 2870 on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.206115