Maiestas yangae, Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011

Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011, Review of the Deltocephalus group of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, Zootaxa 2870, pp. 1-47 : 36-37

Maiestas yangae sp. nov.

(Fig. 32; Plate IV: D)

Length. Male: 3.7–3.9mm.

Stramineous. Vertex ivory with pale brown marks (Plate IV: D); frontoclypeus with fuscous arcs. Pronotum light yellow with six inconspicuous brown longitudinal bands (Plate IV: D). Legs marked with brown. Forewing with veins bordered brown (Plate IV: D).

32. M. yangae sp. nov. A: male pygofer lobe, lateral view; B: style, dorsal view; C: apex of style, dorsal view; D: subgenital plate, ventral view; E & F: aedeagus and connective, dorsal and lateral view.

Forewing macropterous, inner anteapical cell open basally.

Male genitalia. Subgenital plate fairly short, subtriangular, lateral margin slightly convex (Fig. 32D); style abruptly tapered to narrowly rounded apex from midlength (Figs 32B, 32C); aedeagal shaft fairly short, shorter than connective, broad in dorsal view, sometimes with a few spicules (Figs 32E, 32F).

Material examined. Holotype: ɗ, China, Hunan Prov., Changde, Huanan Factory, 23 July 2002, coll. Sun Qinxia. Paratypes: China, Jilin Prov.: 1ɗ, Manjiang, 11 August 2004, coll. Shang Suqin; Liaoning Prov.: 2ɗɗ, Mt. Yiwulushan, 14 July 2006, coll. Zhang Xinmin, at light (1ɗ, BMNH); Hunan Prov.: 1ɗ, Mt. Hengshan, 2 August 1985, coll. Zhang Yalin & Chai Yonghui; 1ɗ, Chenzhou, 16 August 1985, coll. Zhang Yalin & Chai Yonghui; Jiangxi Prov.: 1ɗ, Pingxiang, 5 August 2002, coll. Yuan Zhonglin; 1ɗ, Pingxiang, Lianhua, 4 August 2002, coll. Sun Qinxia; Anhui Prov.: 1ɗ, Paoji, 35m, 2 September 2006, coll. Yang Meixia, at light. All NWAFU, except where indicated.

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the shape of the aedeagal shaft in dorsal view. Slight variation in the style apophysis was noted (compare Figs 32B and 32C).

Etymology. This species is named for our colleague Meixia Yang who has collected many of the specimens in this study.