Megapomponia
| Megapomponia | |
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| Megapomponia merula, male | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Subfamily: | Cicadinae |
| Tribe: | Dundubiini |
| Genus: | Megapomponia Boulard, 2005 |
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Megapomponia is a genus of cicadas from Southeast Asia containing the world's largest cicada species.[1][2] It now belongs to the subtribe Megapomponiina and was erected by Michel Boulard to accommodate the world's largest cicada species, Megapomponia imperatoria, the type species of Megapomponia.[1] Boulard included seven species in Megapomponia. Lee and Sanborn, however, re-transferred two species to Pomponia, Pomponia decem and Pomponia rajah.[2]
Species
[edit]The World Auchenorrhyncha Database[3] includes:
- Megapomponia adusta (Walker, 1850)
- Megapomponia atrotunicata Lee & Sanborn, 2010
- Megapomponia bourgoini Pham & Constant, 2020
- Megapomponia castanea Lee & Sanborn, 2010
- Megapomponia clamorigravis Boulard, 2005
- Megapomponia foksnodi Boulard, 2010
- Megapomponia imperatoria (Westwood, 1842) - type species (as Cicada imperatoria Westwood)
- Megapomponia intermedia (Distant, 1905)
- Megapomponia macilenta Lee, 2012
- Megapomponia merula (Distant, 1905)
- Megapomponia pendleburyi (Boulard, 2001)
- Megapomponia sitesi Sanborn & Lee, 2010
References
[edit]- 1 2 Boulard, M. (2005). Création du genre Megapomponia et description de Mp. clamorigravis n. sp. (Rhynchota, Cicadoidea, Cicadidae). EPHE, Trav. Lab. Biol. Evol. Insectes Hemip. 15:93-110
- 1 2 Lee, J.L., and Sanborn, A.F. (2010). Three new species of the genus Megapomponia (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Indochina, with a key to the species of Megapomponia. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 13(1):31–39
- ↑ World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Megapomponia Boulard, 2005 (retrieved 17 July 2025)
External links
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