Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (2)

  • Deltocephalus (Recilia) spiculatus Dash & Viraktamath, 1998a: 33.

    Holotype; male; 091a774d-e2f8-46e3-be57-b0465f3e9018; deposited at: University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India (UASB); India: Kerala: 12 km N Munnar, 2000 m, 23.iii.1977, B. Mallik

  • Maiestas spiculata (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 22.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: covered with spikes

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.

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