{"id":8423,"date":"2018-11-06T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8423"},"modified":"2024-08-17T14:53:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:53:56","slug":"mata-kama-distant-1881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/mata-kama-distant-1881\/","title":{"rendered":"Mata kama (Distant, 1881)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mata kama<\/em><\/strong> (Distant, 1881) is a cicada found in India, Malaysia and likely the lands in-between.<\/p>\n

Scientific classification:<\/strong>
\nFamily: Cicadidae
\nSubfamily: Cicadinae
\nTribe: Oncotympanini
\nSubTribe: ?
\nGenus: Mata<\/em>
\nSpecies: Mata kama<\/em> (Distant, 1881)<\/p>\n

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Mata<\/em> genus description<\/strong> by W. L. Distant<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Characters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) about as wide as base of mesonotum, distinctly shorter than space between eyes; pronotum shorter than mesonotum, its lateral margins a little convex, sinuate before the posterior lateral angles, which are moderately lobately produced ; abdomen in male short, about as long as space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation ; tympanal orifices completely covered, tympanal coverings with their outer margins sinuate, the posterior angles only projecting beyond the lateral margins of the abdomen; metasternum prolonged in a broad, oblong, laminate process between the opercula, which are short, transverse, and not extending beyond the base of abdomen, their lateral margins visible from above; rostrum reaching the posterior coxae; anterior femora spined beneath; tegmina and wings hyaline, the first maculate; tegmina very long and narrow, more than three times longer than broad, with eight apical areas and the basal cell longer than broad; wings with six apical areas. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

References:<\/h3>\n
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  1. The illustration and genus description comes from the journal Genera Insectorum<\/strong>, and a specific article from 1913<\/strong> by W. L. Distant titled Homoptera. Fam. Cicadidae, Subfam, Cicadinae.<\/strong> Read it on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  2. Current species name verified using Allen Sanborn’s Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  3. Tribe information comes from: MARSHALL, DAVID C. et al.A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification.Zootaxa<\/strong>, [S.l.], v. 4424, n. 1, p. 1—64, may 2018. ISSN 1175-5334. Available at: https:\/\/www.biotaxa.org\/Zootaxa\/article\/view\/zootaxa.4424.1.1<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Mata kama (Distant, 1881) is a cicada found in India, Malaysia and likely the lands in-between. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Oncotympanini SubTribe: ? Genus: Mata Species: Mata kama (Distant, 1881) Mata genus description by W. L. Distant: Characters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) about as wide as base of mesonotum, distinctly shorter than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,69,197,474,901,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genera-insectorum","category-india","category-malaysia","category-mata","category-oncotympanini","category-william-lucas-distant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","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=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}