Maiestas peninsularis, Dutta & Kwon & Suh & Kwon, 2019

Dutta, Nirmal Kumar, Kwon, Jin Hyung, Suh, Sang Jae & Kwon, Yong Jung, 2019, Review of the leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae Deltocephalinae) from Korea, Zootaxa 4646 (3), pp. 564-584 : 578-579

Maiestas peninsularis sp. nov.

( Figs 11 A–J)

Description. General coloration pale yellowish brown. Crown with oblique brown band on each side of median line at anterior margin, with six brown marks below these bands. Pronotum light yellowish, with dark brown patches. Scutellum light yellowish, with blackish basal triangles. Forewings pale brown, veins and cells light in tint with brownish edging. Head wider than pronotum. Crown longer medially than next to eyes, nearly 0.7 times as long as interocular width; anterior margin angularly rounded. Ocelli located on anterior margin of crown, close to eyes. Frontoclypeus broad, nearly as long as width between antennal pits. Anteclypeus slightly tapering apically. Lora distinctly narrower than anteclypeus at near base. Pronotum nearly 1.2 times as long as crown; lateral margin carinate; anterior margin roundly produced; posterior margin slightly concave. Scutellum nearly as long as pronotum, with transverse suture almost straight, not so prominent. Second sternal apodeme in male with posterior lobes well developed, reaching upto end of 3rd sternite.

Male genitalia. Pygofer lobes nearly twice longer than high in lateral view, with numerous macrosetae on apical half; hind margin rounded. Subgenital plates rounded triangular; lateral margins with uniseriate row of macrosetae along with a few hair like setae. Styles slender; apophysis rather long, slightly curved laterally, gently tapered to bluntly pointed apex, bearing ventral tooth in middle portion. Connective longer than aedeagus. Aedeagal shaft slender, rather narrow, swollen subbasally, then tapered to acute upturned apex; gonopore indistinct.

Body length. Male 3.2–3.3mm, female 3.5–3.6mm.

Type material. Holotype male, Korea: Jejudo Province, Gwaneumsa, Hallasan , on Zoysia sp., 7.III.2016, Y.J. Kwon ; Paratypes, 7 males, 9 females, same data as holotype ; 1 male, Sangumburi, 7.III.2016; Chungbuk Province : 1 male, Geumsusan, 27.VIII.2013; Gyeongbuk Province : 1 male, Dansan-myeon, 13.VIII.1983; 1 male, Hyangeup, 8.X.1984; 1 male, KPNU campus, Daegu City, 21.IX.2004; Gyeonggi Province : 1 male, Camp Humphreys, 15.VII.2016; 1 male, same locality, 25.V.2016 ; 1 female, same locality, 23. VI.2016; Gangwon Province : 1 male, Daeamsan, 26.VII.1986; Jeonbuk Province : 1 male, Unjangsan, 28.VIII.1998, all same collector.

Distribution. Korea (Cental, South, Jejudo).

Host plant. Zoysia sp.

Remarks. This new species resembles M. latifrons but can be differentiated from the latter by the more slender and preapically constricted apex of the aedeagal shaft, shorter posterior lobes of the 2nd sternal apodeme, and less strongly produced head.

Figures

FIGURE 11. Maiestas peninsularis sp. nov. A. habitus, dorsal view; B. habitus, lateral view; C. face; D. male pygofer lobe, lateral view; E. subgenital plates and valve, ventral view; F. style, dorsal view; G. connective and aedeagus, dorsal view; H. connective and aedeagus, lateral view; I. abdominal apodeme of sternite II; J. style apophysis, lateral view.