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Maiestas viraktamathi Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012

Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas viraktamathi Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012: Habitus, dorsal view. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas viraktamathi Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012: Habitus, dorsal view. (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas viraktamathi Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012: Habitus, lateral view. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas viraktamathi Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012: Pygofer, lateral view. (Observation).
Head: !! display not done !! on Maiestas viraktamathi Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012: Head. (Observation).
Subgenital plate: !! display not done !! on Maiestas viraktamathi Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012: Pygofer ventral appendages, ventral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas viraktamathi Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012: Aedeagus, ventral view. (Observation).
Stylus: !! display not done !! on Maiestas viraktamathi Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012: Stylus. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas viraktamathi Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012: Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (5)

  • Deltocephalus (Recilia) acuminatus Dash & Viraktamath, 1998a: 20.

    Holotype; male; A.843; deposited at: University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India (UASB); India: Himachal Pradesh: 19 Km S Manali, 11.x.1979. K.D. Ghorpade

  • Deltocephalus (Recilia) acuminatus Dash & Viraktamath, 1998 (primary homonym of Deltocephalus acuminatus Uhler, 1895)
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  • Maiestas viraktamathi Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012a: 359.

    Holotype; male; A.843; deposited at: University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India (UASB); India: Himachal Pradesh: 19 Km S Manali, 11.x.1979. K.D. Ghorpade

  • Deltocephalus (Recilia) acuminatus Dash & Viraktamath, 1998 (replaced by Maiestas viraktamathi Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012) in Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012a: 359.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • 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.
  • Uhler, P.R. (1895a) An enumeration of the Hemiptera-Homoptera of the Island of St. Vincent, W. I. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1895, 55–84.
  • 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.
  • Zahniser, J.N., McKamey, S.H. & Dmitriev, D.A. (2012a) Nomenclatural changes and notes in the Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 88(3), 356–364. https://doi.org/10.3956/2012-34.1
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

in honor of Chandrashekara A. Viraktamath (born 1949), an entomologist specializing in Auchenorrhyncha, University of Agricultural Sciences (India, Bangalore)

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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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