Megapomponia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraordo: Cicadomorpha
Superfamilia: Cicadoidea

Familia: Cicadidae
Subfamilia: Cicadinae
Tribus: Dundubiini
Subtribus: Megapomponiina
Genus: Megapomponia
Species (10): M. atrotunicata – M. castanea – M. clamorigravis – M. foksnodi – M. imperatoria – M. intermedia – M. macilenta – M. merula – M. pendleburyi – M. sitesi –
Name

Megapomponia Boulard, 2005
References

Boulard, M., 2010: Description of Megapomponia foksnodi n. sp. (Rhynchota: Cicadidae: Pomponiini). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 115 (1): 15–16.
Lee, Y.J. & A.F. Sanborn, 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. DOI: 10.1016/j.aspen.2009.08.005. Abstract: [1].

Links

Megapomponia - Taxon details in World Auchenorrhyncha Database

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)

References

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
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