Megapomponia Explained

Megapomponia is a genus of cicadas from Southeast Asia containing the world's largest cicadas 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

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

Notes and 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