''Maua'' is a genus of
cicadas from
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...
. The males possess two pairs of dark ventral abdominal tubercles on third and fourth
sternites.
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
Purana (; sa, , '; literally meaning "ancient, old"Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas, , page 915) is a vast genre of Indian literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends an ...
'' 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''
(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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