{"id":15989,"date":"2021-01-16T21:45:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T04:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=15989"},"modified":"2021-03-07T08:38:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T15:38:40","slug":"three-new-species-of-cicadas-from-meghalaya-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/three-new-species-of-cicadas-from-meghalaya-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Three new species of cicadas from Meghalaya, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three new species of cicadas have been discovered in Meghalaya, India:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiancicadas.org\/sp\/585\/Mata-meghalayana\">Mata meghalayana<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiancicadas.org\/sp\/583\/Mata-lenonia\">Mata lenonia<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiancicadas.org\/sp\/584\/Mata-ruffordii\">Mata ruffordii<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Mata cicadas  Vivek Sarkar\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-15993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/unnamed-scaled.jpg 1810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><br \/><small>Photo courtesy of Vivek Sarkar.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Access the paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/348430428_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\">on Research Gate<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biotaxa.org\/Zootaxa\/article\/view\/zootaxa.4908.1.1\">Zootaxa Vol 4908, No 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paper title: <strong>Description of three new species of the genus Mata Distant, 1906 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Oncotympanini) with notes on their natural history from the Indian state of Meghalaya, India<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Authors: <strong>Vivek Sarkar, Cuckoo Mahapatra, Pratyush P. Mohapatra, Manoj V. Nair, Krushnamegh Kunte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abstract: <strong>&#8220;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 the Indian state of Meghalaya. Keys and taxonomic descriptions of these species are provided with detailed accounts of their natural history and acoustics.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three new species of cicadas have been discovered in Meghalaya, India: Mata meghalayana, Mata lenonia, and Mata ruffordii. Photo courtesy of Vivek Sarkar. Access the paper on Research Gate or Zootaxa Vol 4908, No 1. Paper title: Description of three new species of the genus Mata Distant, 1906 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Oncotympanini) with notes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450,69,474,939],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dundubiini","category-india","category-mata","category-vivek-sarkar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}