''Maiestas hospes'' is a species of bug in the family
Cicadellidae that can be found in
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
,
Hawaii,
New Zealand.
[Description and distribution]
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Description
The species have brown markings on the tegmen
A tegmen (plural: ''tegmina'') designates the modified leathery front wing on an insect particularly in the orders Dermaptera ( earwigs), Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets and similar families), Mantodea (praying mantis), Phasmatodea (stick an ...
with each cell has a dark brown outline. The colouration, is reliable and variable, determinations of which require examination of the male genitalia.[ It was formerly placed within '']Recilia
''Recilia'' is a genus of bugs from the family Cicadellidae. As of Webb & Viraktamath (2009), it includes just two species, with the vast majority of former species now in the genus ''Maiestas
''Maiestas'' is a genus of insects in the family ...
'', but a 2009 revision moved it to ''Maiestas
''Maiestas'' is a genus of insects in the family Cicadellidae, the vast majority of which were formerly placed in the genus '' Recilia''.Webb, M.D.; Viraktamath, C.A. 2009: Annotated check-list, generic key and new species of Old World Deltocep ...
''.[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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References
Endemic fauna of Fiji
Insects described in 1904
Maiestas
Taxa named by George Willis Kirkaldy
Insects of Fiji
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