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Issue: Vol. 5060 No. 3: 1 Nov. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-11-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
Page range: 401-416
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Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records

Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops, Key Laboratory of Biology and Sustainable Management of Plant Diseases and Pests of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui 230036, China.
College of Life Sciences, Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan 614004, China.
Department of Life Sciences, Insects, the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London, SW7 5BD, UK
Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops, Key Laboratory of Biology and Sustainable Management of Plant Diseases and Pests of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui 230036, China.
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha Cicadellidae taxonomy new species Pakistan

Abstract

The grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant is reviewed from Pakistan with the description and illustrations of one new species, Maiestas sinuata Shah & Duan sp. n., and two new records, i.e., Maiestas maculata n. rec. and Maiestas trispinosa n. rec. A checklist of the known species of Maiestas from Pakistan is also given together with a key for their separation (males).

 

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