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]
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| Megapomponia merula, male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Subfamily: | Cicadinae |
| Tribe: | Dundubiini |
| Genus: | Megapomponia Boulard, 2005 |
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Species edit
- 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 edit
- ^ a b 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
- ^ a b 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
External links edit
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