Megapomponia

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

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Megapomponia is a genus of cicadas from Southeast Asia containing the world's largest cicadas species.[1][2] It was erected by 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]

List of species

References

  1. 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
  2. 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

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