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Mata (cicada)

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Mata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Tribe: Oncotympanini
Genus: Mata
Distant, 1906
Species

5, see text.

Mata is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae. There are currently five described species in Mata.[1] In 2021, three new species were described from Meghalaya, India.[2]

Species

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These five species belong to the genus Mata:[3][2]

References

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  1. ^ "Mata". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  2. ^ a b Sarkar, Vivek; Mahapatra, Cuckoo; Mohapatra, Pratyush P.; Nair, Manoj V.; Kunte, Krushnamegh (2021-01-13). "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". Zootaxa. 4908 (1): zootaxa.4908.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4908.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33756630.
  3. ^ "Browse Mata". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-28.

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