taxonID	type	description	language	source
E36C771FFFE7FFACFF7DFC460E0E0740.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: Maiestas illustris Distant, 1917).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE7FFACFF7DFC460E0E0740.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Generally pale brown with c rown often with line of submarginal angular spots and pronotum often with longitudinal stramineous bands (Fig 1 A), sometimes without these markings (Fig. 2 A). Crown triangularly produced, ocellus usually close to eye on anterior margin. Forewing with three anteapical cells, inner cell open. Pygofer without appendage. Subgenital plate short and ovate with outer margin convex to slightly concave; with uniseriate row of macrosetae laterally, sometimes with apical tuft of fine setae. Connective linear with arms longer than stem. Aedeagus fused to connective; shaft elongate, weakly curved dorsally, usually without processes, gonopore apical on dorsal surface, indistinct.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE7FFACFF7DFC460E0E0740.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Old World.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE7FFACFF7DFC460E0E0740.taxon	discussion	Remarks. Maiestas was revised by Webb & Viraktamath (2009). The genus is similar externally to Deltocephalus Burmeister and Recilia but differs by the shape of the aedeagus; in Maiestas the shaft is boat-shaped, at most weekly curved dorsally, sometimes with an apical ventral spine-like process and gonopore apical on dorsal surface. To the previous treatment of the genus from Pakistan (Naveed et al., 2019), a new species and two new country records are added in the present work, together with two species of uncertain identity (see Maiestas spp).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE4FFAFFF7DFC86087B0466.taxon	description	(Figs 1 A – D)	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE4FFAFFF7DFC86087B0466.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. No material examined.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE4FFAFFF7DFC86087B0466.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Pakistan, India.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE4FFAFFF7DFC86087B0466.taxon	discussion	Remarks. This species (originally described from India) differs from other species of Maiestas in color (see key) and male genitalia including dorso-lateral laminate serrations of the aedeagal shaft. It was first recorded from Pakistan by Naveed et al. (2019) from two localities in Punjab.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE4FFAFFF7DFF7E0EBC027F.taxon	discussion	Note. Maiestas setosa is excluded from the key due to the poor original description and figures. M. pruthii, described from Pakistan, is included but known only from Indian material (see under M. pruthii remarks) while two un-named species (see Maiestas spp.) would also key out to this couplet.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE4FFAEFF7DFABE086F0022.taxon	description	(Fig. 1 E)	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE4FFAEFF7DFABE086F0022.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. No material examined.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE4FFAEFF7DFABE086F0022.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Pakistan, India.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE4FFAEFF7DFABE086F0022.taxon	discussion	Remarks. This species was originally described based on both male and female specimens but a female from Pakistan “ Layallpur [Faisalabad], Punjab, at light; 10. X. 29 (Coll. A. Rahman) ” (ZSI), was listed as the “ holotype ” together with “ four other specimens from the type locality and numerous specimens from several other localities in the Indian Museum collection ”. The specimens other than the female holotype may be considered paratypes but it is not clear from which specimen the male genitalia were figured and the male genitalia slide is now missing (pers. com. C. Viraktamath). Therefore, Pruthi’s figure of the male could be from a specimen either from Pakistan or India. No further material of this species from Pakistan has been studied since the original description and although the original material was examined by Dash & Viraktamath (1998), including a male paratype, their figures are from their Indian specimens (pers. com. C. Viraktamath). Despite the above uncertainties, assuming that the female holotype and the male specimen illustrated by Pruthi are conspecific, the identity of the species is clear based on the aedeagus with a distinctive large subapical ventral process (Fig. 1 E). The species can also be recognized by its accessary forewing cross-veins, similar to M. pruthii and Maiestas sp. 1 and Maiestas sp. 2, but from these it also differs by its shorter head as shown in Pruthi’s original figure.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE5FFA9FF7DFB0C0F33007F.taxon	description	(Fig. 2)	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE5FFA9FF7DFB0C0F33007F.taxon	description	Description. Coloration. Pale to yellowish brown (Fig. 2 A – D). Crown with variable black spots (Fig. 2 A, 2 C). Face stramineous to yellowish brown, with black patches adjacent to antennal bases (Fig. 2 D). Pronotum occasionally with black patches. Visible mesonotum with basal angles black (Fig. 2 A, 2 C). Legs with or without blackish spots (Fig. 2 B). Morphology. Head as broad as pronotum (Fig. 2 A, 2 C). Forewing macropterous or submacropterous; inner anteapical cell open at base, sometimes outer anteapical cell absent (Fig. 2 A – B). Male genitalia. Subgenital plate moderately long, subtriangular, lateral margin somewhat convex (Fig. 2 F). Style with preapical lobe short, apophysis digitate, long and faintly sinuate (Fig. 2 F). Connective almost as long as aedeagus (Fig. 2 G). Aedeagus boat-shaped dorsally (Fig. 2 H), straight in lateral aspect and narrow at base, broader in middle and thereafter gradually narrowed to acute upturned apex (Fig. 2 I).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE5FFA9FF7DFB0C0F33007F.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Pakistan: Azad Kashmir: 1 ♂, Banjosa, 33 ° 48 ′ 36.9432 N, 73 ° 49 ′ 14.304 E, sweep net, 26 July 2018, coll. Bismillah Shah (AAU).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE5FFA9FF7DFB0C0F33007F.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Pakistan (new record), China, India.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE5FFA9FF7DFB0C0F33007F.taxon	discussion	Remarks. This species, originally described from India (Calcutta and Sikkim) is recorded here for the first time from Pakistan. It can readily be distinguished from other species of the genus by its external appearance, e. g., with variable black patches on head and thorax, and shape of the aedeagus and style.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE3FFA8FF7DFF7E0FF5051F.taxon	description	(Fig. 4 F – L)	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE3FFA8FF7DFF7E0FF5051F.taxon	description	(see Remarks); Naveed et al., 2019: 286, figs 2 A – C (incorrectly cited as M. subviridis, pers. com. Naveed), Fig. 3 i, misidentification? (see Remarks).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE3FFA8FF7DFF7E0FF5051F.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. No material examined.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE3FFA8FF7DFF7E0FF5051F.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Pakistan, India. (see Remarks)	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE3FFA8FF7DFF7E0FF5051F.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The identity of this species is somewhat uncertain. It was described from the holotype male and allotype female from Pakistan, Layallpur [Faisalabad], but the male genitalia slide of the holotype (ZSI) is now missing (pers. com. Chandra Viraktamath). Although the types were examined by Dash & Viraktamath (1998) their figures are from Indian (Dehli) specimens (pers. com. Chandra Viraktamath) and although showing a very slight difference in the style apex to that of Singh-Pruthi’s original they show a similar relatively long apical extension of the aedeagus and rounded shaft apex (Figs 4 J – L). Therefore, Dash & Viraktamath’s material is tentatively considered correctly identified but, to be certain, topotypical material of M. pruthii, i. e., from Faisalabad, should be obtained and examined. The Pakistan material identified as this species by Khatri & Webb (2010) with their figures reproduced by Naveed et al. (2019) show a more tapered aedeagus apex and shorter apical process and vertex with a small dot either side of the coronal suture apex, are here considered to be a different species (see Maiestas sp. 2 below). Despite the shortcomings of Singh-Pruthi’s original genitalia figures, his habitus figure of this species is very good and shows a species with a relatively long acute head with a pair of inverted U-shaped markings basally and forewings with extra cross veins. The extra forewing cross veins are also present in M. indica (described from the same type locality as M. pruthii) and Maiestas sp. 1 and 2 (see Remarks under these species). In conclusion, until the type genitalia or topotypical specimens can be found, the identity of this species is based on the figures of Dash & Viraktamath (1998) together with the images given here from the same specimen (Figs 4 F – L).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE3FFA8FF7DFB2708AB0742.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. No material examined.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE3FFA8FF7DFB2708AB0742.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Pakistan.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE3FFA8FF7DFB2708AB0742.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The identity of this species remains uncertain due to the poor original description and figures and because the type series from Karachi could not be found in the repository indicated in the original description, Zoological Museum, University of Karachi (Khatri & Webb, 2010: 11).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE3FFAAFF7DF99A091F037A.taxon	description	(Fig. 3) Length. Male: 3.3 mm. Description. Coloration. Yellowish brown (Fig. 3 A – B). Head and thorax creamy white with yellow markings (Fig. 3 A, 3 C). Crown with eight small, dark brownish marks, with ochraceous patches on each side of median longitudinal suture (Fig. 3 A, 3 C). Pronotum with four yellow longitudinal stripes (Fig. 3 A, 3 C). Mesonotum and scutellum pale with yellowish brown spots (Fig. 3 A, 3 C). Eye color tinged with yellowish grey. Ocellus white (Fig. 3 A – C). Frontoclypeus dark brown with pale transverse stripes (Fig. 3 D). Legs marked with dark brown (Fig. 3 B). Forewing brown, with prominent pale venation (Fig. 3 A – B). Morphology. Head slightly wider than pronotum and slightly longer than width between eyes (Fig. 3 A, 3 C). Ocellus next to eye on anterior margin (Fig. 3 A – C). Pronotum median length almost equal to the median length of crown (Fig. 3 A, 3 C). Forewing macropterous, exceeding abdomen when at rest (Fig. 3 A – B). Male genitalia. Pygofer side longer than height in lateral aspect with rounded apical margin (Fig. 3 E). Subgenital plate moderately long, triangular, with row of marginal uniseriate macrosetae (Fig. 3 F). Style narrow, with prominent preapical shoulder; apex digitate, slightly curved laterally (Fig. 3 F). Connective almost equal in length to aedeagus (Fig. 3 G – H). Aedeagal shaft in dorsal view broad at base (Fig. 3 G), gradually tapered towards pointed apex; in lateral view, slightly sinuate with basal half concave ventrally and apical half concave dorsally, finely tapered from base to apex (Fig. 3 H).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE3FFAAFF7DF99A091F037A.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype ♂: Pakistan: Punjab, Kahuta, 33 ° 35 ′ 28.3776 N, 73 ° 22 ′ 12.234 E, sweep net, 25 July 2018, coll. Bismillah Shah (AAU).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE3FFAAFF7DF99A091F037A.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Pakistan.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE3FFAAFF7DF99A091F037A.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species named for the slightly sinuate aedeagal shaft in lateral view.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE3FFAAFF7DF99A091F037A.taxon	discussion	Remarks. This species has a similar sinuate aedeagal shaft to M. chandrai Fletcher & Dai (2019) (replacement name for M. viraktamathi Fletcher & Dai, 2018), from Australia, but differs from the latter species in external appearance and other genitalia structures, i. e., the subgenital plate with apical fine setae, style with apical process thicker and aedeagus lacking a ventrobasal “ heel ”, the latter feature placing M. chandrai in the M. albomaculatus group of Dash & Viraktamath (1998).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE1FFAAFF7DFD820FBA05E8.taxon	description	(Fig. 4 A – E)	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE1FFAAFF7DFD820FBA05E8.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Pakistan: several specimens (male and female), Sindh Prov., Tando Jam, 11. v. 07 (BMNH).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE1FFAAFF7DFD820FBA05E8.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Pakistan, India, China, Pacific.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE1FFAAFF7DFD820FBA05E8.taxon	discussion	Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the rounded apex of the aedeagus with a very short apical spine (more easily seen at high magnification and in ventral view). In Pakistan material there is a pair of dark patches posteriorly on the vertex and a sub-brachypterous female form (Figs 4 A, 4 B); for details, see Khatri & Webb, 2010: 11. The material listed by Khatri & Webb (2010) was collected on 11. v. 07, not 28. viii. 07 (paddy), as stated. These authors also figured a specimen from Guddo Barrage with a somewhat more elongate aedeagus but it is difficult to judge whether this specimen is the same species as now only the genitalia remain (BMNH).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE1FFAAFF7DFB340A300783.taxon	description	(Fig. 5)	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE1FFAAFF7DFB340A300783.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Pakistan: Punjab: 1 ♂, Islamabad, 33 ° 42 ′ 34.3908 N, 73 ° 9 ′ 27.0144 E, sweep net, 26 July 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah (AAU); 1 ♂ Rawalpindi, viii. 1985, C. & L. O’Brien (BMNH).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE1FFAAFF7DFB340A300783.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Pakistan, China, India.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE1FFAAFF7DFB340A300783.taxon	discussion	Remarks. This species can be distinguished by its relatively straight and stout style apical apophysis with serrated inner margin and by the aedeagus in lateral view evenly tapered from base to apex and relatively straight. Some slight differences are shown between the specimens studied here (Figs 5 A – H, Punjab) and between some published figures (Figs 5 I – T) and the original description (Figs 5 U – Z), suggesting that more than one species may be present.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE1FFA6FF7DF8D8098E0392.taxon	description	(Fig. 6)	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE1FFA6FF7DF8D8098E0392.taxon	description	Description. Coloration. Yellowish brown (Fig. 6 A – D). Head and thorax pale yellow (Fig. 6 A, 6 C). Crown with six small, dark brownish marks at anterior margin and some yellowish brown patches on each side of mid-line (Fig. 6 A, 6 C). Pronotum with ochraceous shades and six yellow brown longitudinal stripes (Fig. 6 A, 6 C). Mesonotum and scutellum pale with yellowish brown spots (Fig. 6 A, 6 C). Eye tinged with yellowish brown (Fig. 6 A – D). Frontoclypeus chocolate brown with pale transverse stripes (Fig. 6 D). Leg marked with dark brown (Fig. 6 B). Forewing light brown, with prominent pale venation (Fig. 6 A – B). Morphology. Head slightly wider than pronotum, almost equal in length to width between eyes (Fig. 6 A, 6 C). Ocellus next to eye on anterior margin. Pronotum median length almost equal to the median length of crown (Fig. 6 A, 6 C). Forewing macropterous, almost same length as hind wings (Fig. 6 A – B). Male genitalia. Pygofer quadrate (Fig. 6 E). Subgenital plate moderately long, triangular, lateral margins almost straight, with a row of uniseriate macrosetae, apically rounded and curved dorsad (Fig. 6 F). Valve triangular (Fig. 6 F). Style narrow, with prominent preapical shoulder, apex digitate and sinuate (Fig. 6 F). Connective almost equal in length to aedeagus (Fig. 6 G – I). Aedeagal shaft extended far beyond pygofer, curved ventrally (Fig. 6 E); shaft compressed dorsoventrally, in lateral view broader in basal two thirds then abruptly narrowed to acute apex, in dorsoventral view with needle-like apex (Fig. 6 G – H); pair of subapical spine-like lateral processes adpressed to shaft (Fig. 6 G – H).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE1FFA6FF7DF8D8098E0392.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Pakistan: Punjab: 2 ♂♂, Bansra Gali, 33 ° 54 ′ 17.532 N, 73 ° 22 ′ 13.9656 E, sweep net, 1 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah (AAU).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE1FFA6FF7DF8D8098E0392.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Pakistan (new record), India.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFE1FFA6FF7DF8D8098E0392.taxon	discussion	Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the lateral spine-like processes of the aedeagus. The Pakistan specimens show very slight differences compared to the original Indian material with respect to the shape of the subgenital plates and style apical process, as seen in the original figures given by Dash & Viraktamath (1998) and images of type material sent by C. Viraktamath.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFEDFFA6FF7DFBC0089107C1.taxon	description	(Fig. 7)	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFEDFFA6FF7DFBC0089107C1.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Pakistan: 2 ♂♂, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Pirsabak, 34 ° 0 ′ 37.1196 N, 72 ° 3 ′ 3.6648 E, sweep net, 12 July 2018; 3 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, same data, light trap; 2 ♂♂, Balakot, 34 ° 34 ′ 18.1668 N, 73 ° 21 ′ 46.6668 E, sweep net, 12 August 2019; Punjab: 1 ♂, Hazro, 33 ° 54 ′ 44.208 N, 72 ° 29 ′ 12.084 E, sweep net, 31 July 2018. All collected by Bismillah Shah (AAU).	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
E36C771FFFEDFFA6FF7DFBC0089107C1.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The identity of this species is uncertain. It is similar to the following un-named species in having the forewings with additional cross-veins and similar male genitalia but its colour pattern is different. Its male genitalia are also similar to those of some other Maiestas species, e. g., M. samuelsoni (Knight). Although resembling the latter species (originally described from the Pacific region) in shape of aedeagus and style, it differs by its longer head with more distinct markings and forewing with extra cross-veins. It is likely that the material studied here is the same species recorded from Pakistan as M. samuelsoni by Naveed et al. (2019). These authors recorded three males (NWAFU) from the same region (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) as the specimens examined here, but with the figures of Zhang & Duan (2011) from Chinese specimens, the latter also possibly misidentified. The Pakistan specimens deposited in NWAFU need to be re-examined to confirm their identity.	en	Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan, Webb, Michael D., Duan, Yani (2021): Taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Maiestas Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from Pakistan with description of a new species and two new records. Zootaxa 5060 (3): 401-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.6
