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Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): Habitus. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): Habitus. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): male. (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): male. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): Pygofer, lateral view. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): (Observation).
Head: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): Head and thorax. (Observation).
Head: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): head and thorax, face (male). (Observation).
Subgenital plate: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): Subgenital plate. (Observation).
Subgenital plate: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): Aedeagus, dorsal view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): dorsal view. (Observation).
Stylus: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): Stylus. (Observation).
Stylus: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): (Observation).
Sternite VIII (male): !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): Valve, ventral view. (Observation).
Ovipositor: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): Sternite VII. (Observation).
Ovipositor: !! display not done !! on Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): Ovipositor. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (4)

  • Deltocephalus (Recilia) xanthocephalus Dash & Viraktamath, 1998a: 19.

    Holotype; male; 3aa91595-f33b-4aa6-b9c5-6e3dd98b550d; deposited at: University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India (UASB); India: Kerala: Munnar, 1524 m, 22.iii.1977, C.A. Viraktamath

  • Deltocephalus xanthocephala [sic] (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 22.
  • Deltocephalus xanthocephala [sic] (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998) (misspelling of Deltocephalus (Recilia) xanthocephalus Dash & Viraktamath, 1998) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 22.
  • Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998) in Srinivasa & Meshram, 2017: 1631.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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:

Greek: ξανθός (yellow) + κεφαλή (head)

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
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