Mata ruffordii Sarkar, Mahapatra, Mohapatra, Nair & Kunte, 2021

Wang, Siyue, Jiang, Jinyuan & Wei, Cong, 2024, A review of the cicada genus Mata Distant, 1906 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with description of one new species from China, Zootaxa 5541 (1), pp. 73-83 : 81

6. Mata ruffordii Sarkar, Mahapatra, Mohapatra, Nair & Kunte, 2021

Mata ruffordii Sarkar, Mahapatra, Mohapatra, Nair & Kunte, 2021: 11 .

Material. Unavailable for this study.

Distribution. India.

Diagnosis. Postclypeus greenish brown with black fasciae along median part and black transverse grooves laterally. Forewing with prominent infuscations on radial, radiomedial, medial, mediocubital crossveins and marginal series of minute fuscous spots present on apex of longitudinal veins of apical cell. Male opercula short, with broad dark edges suffused posteriorly. Timbal covers with black spot on anterior angular and overlaid with white wax powder.

Currently, Mata species lack any barcode records in GenBank. We obtained partial mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) sequences (DNA barcoding) of M. uncinulata sp. nov. and M. kama rec. nov., and submitted them to GenBank. This will be helpful for molecular identification and phylogeny reconstruction of Mata species in the future. Unfortunately, no material of M. lenonia and M. ruffordii is available for the present study, and the extraction of sequences of M. meghalayana rec. nov. and the extraction attempt for M. rama failed. The phylogeny of Mata will be studied further when more sequences are available.