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Megapomponia
Sign in to saveMegapomponia is a genus of cicadas from Southeast Asia containing the world's largest cicada species. 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. Boulard included seven species in Megapomponia. Lee and Sanborn, however, re-transferred two species to Pomponia, Pomponia decem and Pomponia rajah.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHemiptera
- FamilyCicadidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Collections
- INHS, MZLU, USNM
- Recorded in
- Indonesia
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Megapomponia is a genus of cicadas from Southeast Asia containing the world's largest cicada species. 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. Boulard included seven species in Megapomponia. Lee and Sanborn, however, re-transferred two species to Pomponia, Pomponia decem and Pomponia rajah.
==Species== The World Auchenorrhyncha Database includes: Megapomponia adusta Megapomponia atrotunicata Megapomponia bourgoini Megapomponia castanea Megapomponia clamorigravis Megapomponia foksnodi Megapomponia imperatoria - type species (as Cicada imperatoria ) Megapomponia intermedia Megapomponia macilenta Megapomponia merula Megapomponia pendleburyi Megapomponia sitesi
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Megapomponia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.