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

description: Maiestas maculata (Pruthi)
(Figs 33–35; Plate IV: E; Plate V: P; Plate VI: P) Cicadula maculata Pruthi, 1930: 58 –59, Plate V, Fig. 2; Li & Wang, 1992: 216, Fig. 114. Thamnotettix prabha Pruthi, 1930: 62 –63, Plate V, Fig. 6. Synonymised by Webb & Viraktamath, 2009: 41. Deltocephalus (Recilia) prabha, Dash & Viraktamath, 1998: 31 –32, Figs 252–259. Deltocephalus (Recilia) maculatus, Dash & Viraktamath, 1998: 32 –33, Figs 260–269. Maiestas maculata, Webb & Viraktamath, 2009: 22.
Redescription. Length. Male: 3.2–3.5mm; female: macropterous 3.3–3.6mm, submacropterous 2.8–3.0mm.
Pale to chocolate brown. Vertex with variable black patches or patches absent (Figs 33 A–F; Plate IV: E). Face stramineous to dark brown, with or without black patches near bases of antennae and with or without a few oblique piceous striae laterally. Pronotum sometimes with black patches near anterior margin. Scutellum sometimes with black spot near basal angles (Figs 33 A–F; Plate IV: E). Legs with or without black patches.
Forewing macropterous or submacropterous; inner anteapical cell open basally, sometimes outer anteapical cell absent.
Male genitalia. Subgenital plate fairly short, subtriangular, lateral margin slightly convex (Fig. 34 J); style preapical lobe short, apophysis digitate, long and slightly sinuate (Fig. 34 K); connective as long as aedeagus, aedeagus, boat-shaped dorsally, in lateral view straight and narrow basally, wider in middle and thereafter gradually tapered to acute upturned apex (Figs 34 L, 34M).
Female genitalia. Hind margin of seventh sternum as in Fig. 33 H, Plate V: P and Plate VI: P.
Material examined. China, Yunnan Prov.: 135ɗɗ, 65ΨΨ, Tengchong, 1930m, 14 August 2005, coll. Yang Meixia (1ɗ, 1Ψ, BMNH); 15ɗɗ, 8ΨΨ, Mt. Diancangshan, 2173m, 4, 5 August 2004 (1ɗ, BMNH); 3ɗɗ, 1Ψ, Mt. Zixishan, October 1999; 2ɗɗ, Tengchong, 1700m, 16 August 2005; 1ɗ, Yiliang, 1840m, 29 July 2005; 1ɗ, Kunming, 1700m, 14 October 1987, coll. Chai Yonghui. All collected by Li Meng and NWAFU, except where indicated.
Distribution. India; China (Anhui, Shanxi, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Yunnan).
Remarks. Based on the material from China we confirm the synonymy of prabha with maculata given by Webb & Viraktamath (2009). Previously, Dash & Viraktamath (1998) had considered maculata to be a separate but related species to prabha. Accepted differences between the two species at that time were: in prabha the apex of the vertex has a black patch with three yellow spots (Fig. 33 E) instead of three black spots in maculata (Fig. 33 D); the forewing more uniformly darker brown; the aedeagal shaft lacking a basal lateral projection (Fig. 34 L) and its apex simple (Fig. 35 T) compared to the curved and hook-like apex in maculata (Fig. 35 W). From examining many specimens from Yunnan China, we found all intermediates in the above structures (see Figs 33 A–F, 35Q–W).
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 37-39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.206115