Maiestas

This article is about the genus of insects. For the Ancient Roman offence equivalent to lese-majesté or treason, see Law of majestas.

Maiestas is a genus of insects in the family Cicadellidae, the vast majority of which were formerly placed in the genus Recilia.^[1][2]

Maiestas
Head, pronotum, and scutellum of Maiestas vetus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Family:	Cicadellidae
Subfamily:	Deltocephalinae
Tribe:	Deltocephalini
Genus:	Maiestas Distant, 1917
Type species
Maiestas illustris Distant, 1917
Synonyms[1]
Togacephalus Matsumura, 1940 Inazuma Ishihara, 1953 Inemadara Ishihara, 1953 Insulanus Linnavuori, 1960 (Preocc.) Togacephala Auctt. (Lapsus calami)

Species

Species accepted as of February 2025:^[3]

• Maiestas affinis (Osborn, 1934)
• Maiestas agroecus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas akashiensis (Matsumura, 1914)
• Maiestas albofasciata (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas albomaculata (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas alcanor (Linnavuori, 1969)
• Maiestas angustisecta (Linnavuori, 1962)
• Maiestas anhuiensis Xu, Shah & Duan, 2023
• Maiestas antea (Linnavuori, 1969)
• Maiestas arida (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas aulonias (Linnavuori, 1969)
• Maiestas banda (Kramer, 1962)
• Maiestas barrowensis Fletcher & Dai, 2018
• Maiestas beieri (Dlabola, 1964)
• Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas bengalensis (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas bicolor (Singh Pruthi, 1930)
• Maiestas biproducta Xing & Li, 2012
• Maiestas bispinosa (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas borealis Dutta, Kwon, Suh & Kwon, 2019
• Maiestas botelensis (Matsumura, 1940)
• Maiestas brevicula (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas brevis (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas butleri (Distant, 1918)
• Maiestas campbelli (Distant, 1918)
• Maiestas canaraica (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas canga (Kramer, 1962)
• Maiestas chalami Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012
• Maiestas chandrai Fletcher & Dai, 2019
• Maiestas chhota (Singh Pruthi, 1930)
• Maiestas clavata (Kramer, 1962)
• Maiestas coronata (Melichar, 1904)
• Maiestas crura Zhang & Duan, 2011
• Maiestas cuculata (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas cultella Zhang & Duan, 2011
• Maiestas dashi Webb & Viraktamath, 2009
• Maiestas deleta (Baker, 1924)
• Maiestas dex (Kramer, 1962)
• Maiestas dinghuensis Zhang & Duan, 2011
• Maiestas dispar (Kramer, 1962)
• Maiestas distincta (Motschulsky, 1859)
• Maiestas dorsalis (Motschulsky, 1859)
• Maiestas formosiellus (Matsumura, 1940)
• Maiestas glabra (Cai & Britton, 2001)
• Maiestas hastata (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas hesperidum (Lindberg, 1958)
• Maiestas heuksandoensis (Kwon & Lee, 1979)
• Maiestas hopponis (Matsumura, 1914)
• Maiestas horvathi (Then, 1896)
• Maiestas hospes (Kirkaldy, 1904)
• Maiestas illustris Distant, 1917
• Maiestas indica (Singh Pruthi, 1936)
• Maiestas irisa Zhang & Duan, 2011
• Maiestas irwini Duan, Dietrich & Zhang, 2017
• Maiestas ismenias (Linnavuori, 1969)
• Maiestas jagannathi (Dash & Viraktamath, 1995)
• Maiestas jamiensis (Matsumura, 1940)
• Maiestas jogensis (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas kalaffoensis (Heller & Linnavuori, 1968)
• Maiestas knighti Webb & Viraktamath, 2009
• Maiestas krameri (Ramasubba Rao & Ramakrishnan, 1988)
• Maiestas lactipennis (Kramer, 1962)
• Maiestas latifrons (Matsumura, 1902)
• Maiestas lineata Dmitriev, 2020
• Maiestas lobata (Linnavuori, 1961)
• Maiestas lucindae (Kirkaldy, 1907)
• Maiestas luodianensis Xing & Li, 2012
• Maiestas maculata (Singh Pruthi, 1930)
• Maiestas maritima Dutta, Kwon, Suh & Kwon, 2019
• Maiestas menoni (Ramasubba Rao & Ramakrishnan, 1990)
• Maiestas mica (Kramer, 1962)
• Maiestas nakaharae (Matsumura, 1914)
• Maiestas obongsanensis (Kwon & Lee, 1979)
• Maiestas okinawana (Matsumura, 1914)
• Maiestas oryzae (Matsumura, 1902)
• Maiestas pacifica (Osborn, 1934)
• Maiestas parajogensis Dmitriev, 2020
• Maiestas parapruthii (Chalam & Ramasubba Rao, 2005)
• Maiestas pararemigia Zhang & Duan, 2011
• Maiestas peninsularis Dutta, Kwon, Suh & Kwon, 2019
• Maiestas pileiformis Zhang & Duan, 2011
• Maiestas porticus (Melichar, 1903)
• Maiestas pruthii (Metcalf, 1967)
• Maiestas pulvisculus (Distant, 1908)
• Maiestas remigia Zhang & Duan, 2011
• Maiestas rostriformis Zhang & Duan, 2011
• Maiestas rugulans (Naudé, 1926)
• Maiestas samuelsoni (Knight, 1976)
• Maiestas scalpella Zhang & Duan, 2011
• Maiestas schaeuffelei (Heller & Linnavuori, 1968)
• Maiestas schmidtgeni (Wagner, 1939)
• Maiestas scriptus (Distant, 1908)
• Maiestas semilimax (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas serrata Duan & Dietrich, 2017
• Maiestas setosa (Ahmed, Murtaza & Malik, 1988)
• Maiestas sinuata Shah & Duan, 2021
• Maiestas spiculata (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas subsirii Duan, 2017
• Maiestas subviridis (Metcalf, 1946)
• Maiestas systenos (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas tareni (Dash & Viraktamath, 1995)
• Maiestas trifasciata (Lindberg, 1954)
• Maiestas trispinosa (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas trisuli (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas vagans (Distant, 1917)
• Maiestas variabilis (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas variegata (Anufriev, 1970)
• Maiestas veinata (Singh Pruthi, 1930)
• Maiestas vetus (Knight, 1975)
• Maiestas viraktamathi Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev, 2012
• Maiestas webbi Zhang & Duan, 2011
• Maiestas xanthocephalus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998)
• Maiestas yangae Zhang & Duan, 2011

See also

• Shōnen Matsumura - entomologist