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Issue: Vol. 4908 No. 1: 13 Jan. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-01-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4908.1.1
Page range: 1–28
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Description of three new species of the genus Mata Distant, 1906 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Oncotympanini) with notes on their natural history from Indian state of Meghalaya, India

North Orissa University, Department of Zoology, Sri Ram Chandra Vihar, Takatpur, Mayurbhanj, Baripada, Odisha 757003 Wildlife Institute of India - Category 2 Centre (WII-C2C) for World Natural Heritage Management and Training for Asia and the Pacific Region, under the auspices of UNESCO, Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001 National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bellary Road, GKVK, Bangaluru, Karnataka.
North Orissa University, Department of Zoology, Sri Ram Chandra Vihar, Takatpur, Mayurbhanj, Baripada, Odisha 757003
Zoological Survey of India, Central Zone Regional Centre, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Charleville, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand-248179.
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bellary Road, GKVK, Bangaluru, Karnataka.
Hemiptera Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot Cicada Mata Species Discovery Natural History Meghalaya

Abstract

Three new species of the Asian genus Mata Distant, 1906 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) viz. Mata lenonia sp.nov.; Mata ruffordii sp.nov. and Mata meghalayana sp.nov. are described from Indian state of Meghalaya. Keys and taxonomic descriptions of these species are provided with detailed accounts of their natural history and acoustics.

 

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