Maua (cicada)

Maua is a genus of cicadas from Southeast Asia.^[1] The males possess two pairs of dark ventral abdominal tubercles on third and fourth sternites.^[2]

Maua
Maua quadrituberculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Family:	Cicadidae
Subtribe:	Leptopsaltriina
Genus:	Maua Distant, 1905
Species
See text.

In 2000, Kos and Gogala expressed the opinion that it was likely that the Maua as it was then constructed was interlineated with the genus Purana as the criteria used by Distant in separating them were not reflective of the phylogenetic relations of the species included.^[3] In 2010, Lee and Hill redefined the Cicadini subtribe Leptopsaltriina Moulton, 1923, as well as a number of other relationships in the Asian Cicadidae, placing both Maua and Purana in Leptopsaltriina, along with several other genera.^[4]

List of species

• Maua affinis Distant, 1905
• Maua albigutta (Walker, 1856)
• Maua albistigma (Walker, 1850)
• Maua borneensis Duffels, 2009
• Maua latilinea (Walker, 1868)
• Maua linggana Moulton, 1923
• Maua palawanensis Duffels, 2009
• Maua quadrituberculata (Signoret, 1847)

References

1. "Maua" at the Encyclopedia of Life
2. Duffels, J. P. (2009). "A revision of the cicadas of the genus Maua Distant (Hemiptera, Cicadidae) from Sundaland" (PDF). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 152 (2): 303–332. doi:10.1163/22119434-900000282. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
3. Kos, Martijn & Gogala, Matija (2000). "The cicadas of the Purana nebulilinea group (Homoptera, Cicadidae) with a note on their songs" (PDF). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 143 (1): 1–26, page 3. doi:10.1163/22119434-99900037. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
4. Lee, Young June & Hill, Kathy B. R. (2010). "Systematic revision of the genus Psithyristria Stål (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with seven new species and a molecular phylogeny of the genus and higher taxa". Systematic Entomology. 35 (2): 277–305. Bibcode:2010SysEn..35..277J. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00509.x.