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Species

Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903)

Head on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Head and thorax (Hyderabad). (Observation).
Head on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Head and thorax (Hyderabad). (Observation).
Head on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Head and thorax (Munnar). (Observation).
Head on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Head and thorax (Silchar). (Observation).
Head on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Head and thorax (syntype durga). (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Subgenital plate (syntype intermedius). (Observation).
Stylus on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Stylus (syntype intermedius). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, lateral view (Hyderabad). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, lateral view (Mudigere). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, lateral view (Munnar). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, lateral view (Silchar). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, lateral view (syntype intermedius). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, lateral view (Yercaud). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, lateral view (Hyderabad). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, lateral view (Mudigere). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, lateral view (Munnar). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, lateral view (Silchar). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, lateral view (Yercaud). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, ventral view (Hyderabad). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, ventral view (Mudigere). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, ventral view (Munnar). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, ventral view (Silchar). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, ventral view (syntype durga). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, ventral view (syntype intermedius). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, ventral view (Yercaud). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, ventral view (Hyderabad). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, ventral view (Mudigere). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, ventral view (Munnar). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, ventral view (Silchar). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Aedeagus, ventral view (Yercaud). (Observation).
Forewing on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Forewing. (Observation).
Hind wing on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Hind wing. (Observation).
Abdomen, sternal apodemes, ventral view on Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903): Abdominal apodemes I and II (syntype intermedius). (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (20)

  • Deltocephalus porticus Melichar, 1903b: 204.

    Syntypes; male, female; 2fe4d7a1-cf19-48d9-a62e-1b919d2ec6ac; deposited at: Moravske Muzeum [Moravian Museum], Brno, Czechia (MMBC); Sri Lanka: Peradeniya, iii.1908

  • Deltocephalus intermedius Melichar, 1903b: 205.

    Syntype; male; 7dd63e36-1fe0-4fd2-9e65-23112748cc86; deposited at: Moravske Muzeum [Moravian Museum], Brno, Czechia (MMBC); Sri Lanka, Peradeniya, 1f, Henarathgoda Botanical Garden

  • Maiestas intermedius (Melichar, 1903) in Srinivasa & Meshram, 2017: 1629.
  • Maiestas fletcheri (Singh-Pruthi, 1930) in Srinivasa & Meshram, 2017: 1628.

Nomenclature references (11)

  • Melichar, L. (1903b) Homopteren-Fauna von Ceylon. In Verlag von Felix L. Dames. Berlin. pp. i-iv, 1-248. Verlag von Felix L. Dames. Berlin. iv + 248 pp. + 6 pls.
  • Melichar, L. (1914b) Homopteren von Java, gesammelt von Herrn Edw. Jacobson. Not. Leyden Mus., 36(9), 91–147 + pl. 3.
  • Distant, W.L. (1918b) Rhynchota. VII. Homoptera: appendix. Heteroptera: addenda. In A.E. Shipley & G.A.K. Marshall (Eds.). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor & Francis, London. Vol. 7, pp. i-viii + 1–210.
  • Singh-Pruthi, H. (1930a) Studies on Indian Jassidae (Homoptera). Part I. Introductory and description of some new genera and species. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 11, 1–68 + pls. I-V.
  • Matsumura, S. (1932c) The Typhlocybid-genera of the late Distant. Insecta Matsumurana, 6(4), 190–191. [1931]
  • Ghauri, M.S.K. (1963f) A new genus based on Orosius maculatus Pruthi and generic re-assignment of some of Pruthi’s species of Cicadelloidea (Auchenorrhyncha: Homoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 13), 6, 559–563.
  • Kwon, Y.J. & Lee, C.-E. (1979b) On some new and little known Palearctic species of leafhoppers (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Nature and Life in Southeast Asia (Kyungpook Journal of Biological Sciences.), 9(2), 69–97.
  • Rao, K.R. (1989a) Descriptions of some new leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) with notes on some synonymies and imperfectly known species from India. Hexapoda (Insecta Indica), 1(1-2), 59–84.
  • 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.
  • Srinivasa, R.N. & Meshram, N.M. (2017) Note on genus Maiestas (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with diagnosis of important species. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 5(5), 1616–1636.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: colonnade, covered walk; portico; covered gallery atop amphitheater/siege works

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