Maiestas dorsalis (Motschulsky, 1859)

Kushwaha, Sandeep, Khare, Preety, Jahan, Sonam, Kumar, Hirdesh, Dam, Debashree & Suman, Kusumala, 2023, An account of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from the Southern Odisha, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 123 (1), pp. 51-62 : 58-59

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i1/2023/172403
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11089600
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03887C07-5D15-9226-FCDF-6B51FE41FED6
treatment provided by	Felipe (2024-04-10 16:43:34, last updated 2024-11-27 04:46:30)
scientific name	Maiestas dorsalis (Motschulsky, 1859)
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8. Maiestas dorsalis (Motschulsky, 1859) View in CoL

Deltocephalus dorsalis Motschulsky, 1859: 114 View in CoL

Maiestas dorsalis View in CoL : Webb and Viratkamath (2009: 16)

Material examined: INDIA • 1♀ (5mm), Odisha, Gajapati, Aduba, near Harabhangi , 19°28’41” N, 84°9’16” E, 25.V.2019, S. Kushwaha and Party leg.; Regn. No.:H15-10134 GoogleMaps .

Diagnostic characters. Vertex ochraceous with two rounded spots. Pronotum with irregular ochraceous markings. Scutellum as long as the vertex with two small streaks at the lateral margin. Forewing with a brownish zig-zag pattern.

Distribution: India: Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, New Delhi, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Australia, Burma, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.

Remark. First record to the state.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
SubOrder	Auchenorrhyncha
InfraOrder	Cicadomorpha
SuperFamily	Membracoidea
Family	Cicadellidae
SubFamily	Deltocephalinae
Genus	Maiestas