Maiestas vetus

Taxonavigation

Maiestas vetus (head, pronotum, and scutellum), compare with fig. 20a in Knight (1975)

Maiestas vetus (left forewing)

Maiestas vetus (apex of right hind femur)

Maiestas vetus (aedeagus, left lateral view), compare with fig. 20f in Knight (1975)

Taxonavigation: Membracoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Paraneoptera Superordo: Condylognatha Ordo: Hemiptera Subordo: Auchenorrhyncha Infraordo: Cicadomorpha Superfamilia: Membracoidea

Familia: Cicadellidae
Subfamilia: Deltocephalinae
Tribus: Deltocephalini
Genus: Maiestas
Species: Maiestas vetus

Name

• Maiestas vetus (Knight, 1975)
  • Authority for placement: Webb & Viraktamath, 2009: 19 ('Comb. nov.')
  • Original genus: Deltocephalus Burmeister, 1838
  • Original status: valid species
  • Primary type: holotype
    • Fixation: designated
    • Description: [adult] male
    • Repository: NZAC, as 'DSIR'
  • Type locality: 'Canterbury Prov., Mt. Cook National Park, Tasman Valley 6.4 km S of Ball Hut, 1037 m'

Combinations

• Deltocephalus vetus: original combination
• Recilia vetus: Day & Fletcher, 1994: 1204 ('comb. nov.')

References

Primary references

• Knight, W.J. 1975: Deltocephalinae of New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). New Zealand journal of zoology, 2(2): 169–208. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1975.9517868 [first availability, see p. 203, and figs. 20-21]

Additional references

• Day, M.F.; Fletcher, M.J. 1994: An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate taxonomy, 8(5): 1117–1288. DOI: 10.1071/IT9941117 [see p. 1204]
• Knight, W.J. 1976: The leafhoppers of Lord Howe, Norfolk, Kermadec, and Chatham Islands and their relationship to the fauna of New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). New Zealand journal of zoology 3(2): 89–98. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1976.9517905 Reference page.  [see p. 96]
• Larivière, M.-C., Fletcher, M.J. & Larochelle, A. 2010. Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera): catalogue. Fauna of New Zealand 63: 1–232. DOI: 10.7931/J2/FNZ.63 . Reference page.  [see p. 61]
• Webb, M.D. & Viraktamath, C.A. 2009. Annotated check-list, generic key and new species of Old World Deltocephalini leafhoppers with nomenclatorial changes in the Deltocephalus group and other Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae). Zootaxa 2163: 1–64. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2163.1.1 Reference page.  [see p. 19, and fig. 35]