''Maua'' is a genus of
cicada
The cicadas () are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two ...
s from
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...
. The males possess two pairs of dark ventral abdominal tubercles on third and fourth
sternites
The sternum (: sterna) is the ventral portion of a segment of an arthropod thorax or abdomen.
In insects, the sterna are usually single, large sclerites, and external. However, they can sometimes be divided in two or more, in which case the sub ...
.
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 ''
'' as the criteria used by Distant in separating them were not reflective of ''the phylogenetic relations of the species included.'' 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.
List of species
*''Maua affinis''
Distant, 1905
*''
Maua albigutta
''Maua albigutta'' is a cicada species that is widely distributed in Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia and has been recorded once from Borneo
Borneo () is the List of islands by area, third-largest island in the world, with an area of , and p ...
''
(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
Hemiptera of Asia
Leptopsaltriini
Cicadidae genera
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