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World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)
Species

Trombonia linearis (Walker, 1850)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (10)

  • Dundubia linearis Walker, 1850a: 48. (valid in Duffels & Laan, 1985a: 176)

    Holotype; male; BMNH(E) 1009401; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK);

  • Pomponia linearis (Walker, 1850) in Stål, 1866b: 171.
  • Pomponia tuba Lee, 2009 (subjective synonym of Dundubia linearis Walker, 1850) in Wang, Hayashi & Wei, 2025: 14.
  • Trombonia linearis (Walker, 1850) in Lee, 2025: 505.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • 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.
  • Stål, C. (1866b) Analecta Hemipterologica. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. Berlin, 10, 151–172.
  • Distant, W.L. (1891a) A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. West, Newman & Co.; R. Friedlander & Sohn. London; Berlin, 49–96 + pls. v-ix.
  • 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.
  • Duffels, J.P. & van der Laan, R.A. (1985a) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Homoptera, Auchenorhyncha) 1956-1980. In K.A. Spencer (Ed.). Dr. W. Junk Publishers. Series Entomologica. Dr W. Junk Publishers, Netherlands. Vol. 34, xiv + 414 pp.
  • Lee, Y.J. (2009g) Three new species of the Pomponia linearis species group (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), with a key to the species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 122, 306–316.
  • Sanborn, A.F. & Villet, M.H. (2014a) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). USA: Elsevier Science Publishing, 1001 pp.
  • 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
  • Wang, J.-L., Hayashi, M. & Wei, C. (2025) Phylogeny, biogeography, and diversification of the cicada Pomponia linearis and its allies (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 203(4), 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf019
  • Lee, Y.J. (2025) Two new cicada genera of Psithyristriini Distant, with taxonomic notes on Pomponia Stål and Terpnosia Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 61(6), 497–508. https://doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2025.2561701
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: consisting of lines

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1067