Maiestas hospes

Maiestas hospes is a species of bugs from Cicadellidae family that can be found in Fiji, Hawaii, New Zealand.[1]

Maiestas hospes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Superfamily:
Membracoidea
Family:
Cicadellidae
Genus:
Maiestas
Species:
M. hospes
Binomial name
Maiestas hospes
Kirkaldy, 1904

Description

The species have brown markings on the tegmen with each cell has a dark brown outline. The colouration, is reliable and variable, determinations of which require examination of the male genitalia.[1] It was formerly placed within Recilia, but a 2009 revision moved it to Maiestas.[2]

References
  1. Description and distribution
  2. 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
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