Megapomponia

Megapomponia is a genus of cicadas from Southeast Asia containing the world's largest cicadas species.[1][2] It was erected by Michel Boulard|Boulard to accommodate the world's largest cicada species, Megapomponia imperatoria, the type species of Megapomponia.[1] Michel Boulard|Boulard included seven species in Megapomponia. Lee and Sanborn, however, re-transferred two species to Pomponia, Pomponia decem and Pomponia rajah.[2]

Megapomponia
Megapomponia merula, male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Suborder:
Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder:
Cicadomorpha
Superfamily:
Cicadoidea
Family:
Cicadidae
Subfamily:
Cicadinae
Tribe:
Dundubiini
Subtribe:
Dundubiina
Genus:
Megapomponia

Boulard, 2005
Species

See text

List of species
  • Megapomponia atrotunicata Young June Lee|Lee and Allen F. Sanborn|Sanborn, 2010
  • Megapomponia castanea Young June Lee|Lee and Allen F. Sanborn|Sanborn, 2010
  • Megapomponia clamorigravis Michel Boulard|Boulard, 2005
  • Megapomponia imperatoria (Westwood, 1842)
  • Megapomponia intermedia (Distant, 1905)
  • Megapomponia merula (Distant, 1905)
  • Megapomponia pendleburyi (Michel Boulard|Boulard, 2001)
  • Megapomponia sitesi Young June Lee|Lee and Allen F. Sanborn|Sanborn, 2010

References
  1. 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
  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

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