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Megapomponia adusta (Walker, 1850)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (9)

  • Cicada adusta Walker, 1850a: 102. (valid in Metcalf, 1963f: 840)

    Holotype; male; 65e80082-86d0-434e-bf7d-8c353929dccd; Indonesia: Java, Muir

  • Cicada adusta Walker, 1850 (subjective synonym of Cicada montana Scopoli, 1772) in Hagen, 1856b: 74.
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  • Pomponia budda [sic] Kirkaldy, 1909 (misspelling of Pomponia buddha Kirkaldy, 1909) in Sanborn & Villet, 2014a: 341.
  • Megapomponia adusta (Walker, 1850) in Sanborn, 2025: 67.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: browned, burned

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Distant, W.L. (1891a) A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. West, Newman & Co.; R. Friedlander & Sohn. London; Berlin, 49–96 + pls. v-ix.
  • Distant, W.L. (1906j) A synonymic catalogue of Homoptera. Part 1. Cicadidae. Printed by order of the Trustees. London., 1906, 1–207.
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  • Hagen, H.A. (1856b) Die Sing-Cicaden Europa's. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 17, 66–91.
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1909i) Hemiptera, old and new, No. 2. The Canadian Entomologist, 41, 388–392.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1963f) General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section II. Caeaninae and Cicadinae. Baltimore, Md.: Waverly press, 587–919 pp.
  • Moulton, J.C. (1923a) Cicadas of Malaysia. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums, 11, 69–182.
  • Price, B.W., Allan, E.L., Marathe, K., Sarkar, V., Simon, C.M. & Kunte, K. (2016) The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography. Biodiversity Data Journal, 4(e8051), 1–156. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.4.e8051
  • Sanborn, A.F. & Villet, M.H. (2014a) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). USA: Elsevier Science Publishing, 1001 pp.
  • Sanborn, A.F. (2025) Thirteen new cicada species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Thailand with the resurrection of Pomponiini Kato, 1932, a new combination, and a new tribal assignment for Muda Distant, 1897. Megataxa, 17(1), 41–90. https://doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.17.1.2
  • Walker, F. (1850a) List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. London: Edward Newman, Vol. 1, 1–260. pl. 1–2.

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