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species

Maiestas canaraica (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (2)

  • Deltocephalus (Recilia) canaraicus Dash & Viraktamath, 1998a: 11.

    Holotype; male; 75e0a241-8725-4df8-ac9f-8476557f3a8c; deposited at: University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India (UASB); India: Karnataka: 5 km W Koppa, 22.xi.1982; H.V. Anantha Murthy

  • Maiestas canaraica (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 21.

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Dash, P.C. & Viraktamath, C.A. (1998a) A review of the Indian and Nepalese grass feeding leafhopper genus Deltocephalus (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) with description of new species. Hexapoda (Insecta Indica), 10(1-2), 1–59.
  • Webb, M.D. & Viraktamath, C.A. (2009a) 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.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

from Kanara or Canara, also known as Karavali, the historically significant stretch of land situated by the southwestern coast of India, alongside the Arabian Sea in the present-day Indian state of Karnataka

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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