Maiestas trispinosa (Dash & Viraktamath) n. rec.

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Deltocephalus (Recilia) trispinosus Dash & Viraktamath, 1998: 35, figs 296–304 Maiestas trispinosa, Webb & Viraktamath, 2009: 38, comb. nov.

Length. Male: 4.1mm.

Description. Coloration. Yellowish brown (Fig. 6A–D). Head and thorax pale yellow (Fig. 6A, 6C). Crown with six small, dark brownish marks at anterior margin and some yellowish brown patches on each side of mid-line (Fig. 6A, 6C). Pronotum with ochraceous shades and six yellow brown longitudinal stripes (Fig. 6A, 6C). Mesonotum and scutellum pale with yellowish brown spots (Fig. 6A, 6C). Eye tinged with yellowish brown (Fig. 6A–D). Frontoclypeus chocolate brown with pale transverse stripes (Fig. 6D). Leg marked with dark brown (Fig. 6B). Forewing light brown, with prominent pale venation (Fig. 6A–B).

Morphology. Head slightly wider than pronotum, almost equal in length to width between eyes (Fig. 6A, 6C). Ocellus next to eye on anterior margin. Pronotum median length almost equal to the median length of crown (Fig. 6A, 6C). Forewing macropterous, almost same length as hind wings (Fig. 6A–B).

Male genitalia. Pygofer quadrate (Fig. 6E). Subgenital plate moderately long, triangular, lateral margins almost straight, with a row of uniseriate macrosetae, apically rounded and curved dorsad (Fig. 6F). Valve triangular (Fig. 6F). Style narrow, with prominent preapical shoulder, apex digitate and sinuate (Fig. 6F). Connective almost equal in length to aedeagus (Fig. 6G–I). Aedeagal shaft extended far beyond pygofer, curved ventrally (Fig. 6E); shaft compressed dorsoventrally, in lateral view broader in basal two thirds then abruptly narrowed to acute apex, in dorsoventral view with needle-like apex (Fig. 6G–H); pair of subapical spine-like lateral processes adpressed to shaft (Fig. 6G–H).

Material examined. Pakistan: Punjab: 2♂♂, Bansra Gali, 33°54′17.532 N, 73°22′13.9656 E, sweep net, 1 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah (AAU) .

Distribution. Pakistan (new record), India.

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the lateral spine-like processes of the aedeagus. The Pakistan specimens show very slight differences compared to the original Indian material with respect to the shape of the subgenital plates and style apical process, as seen in the original figures given by Dash & Viraktamath (1998) and images of type material sent by C. Viraktamath.