species

Sinfonia opalifera (Walker, 1850)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (30)

Dundubia opalifera Walker, 1850a: 56.
Holotype; adult; 1d8726bf-92d5-411e-adda-2ab02801971e; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Corea, E. Belcher
Cosmopsaltria opalifera (Walker, 1850) in Distant, 1891a: 56.
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Dundubia (Cosmopsaltria) opalifera Walker, 1850 in Kirkaldy, 1901c: 49.
Meimuna opalifera (Walker, 1850) in Oshanin, 1908b: 389.
Meimuna opalifera var. formosana Kato, 1925b: 22.
Meimuna opallifera [sic] (Walker, 1850) in Kato, 1925b: 44.
Meimuna opallifera [sic] (Walker, 1850) (misspelling of Dundubia opalifera Walker, 1850) in Kato, 1925b: 44.
Meimuna opalifera var. nigroventris Kato, 1927a: 29.
Meimuna opalifera formosans [sic] (Walker, 1850) in Kato, 1932a: 217.
Meimuna opalifera nigroventria [sic] (Walker, 1850) in Kato, 1932a: 217.
Meimuna opalifera var. punctata Kato, 1932a: 337.
Meimuna opalifera var. formosana Kato, 1925 (subjective synonym of Dundubia opalifera Walker, 1850) in Kato, 1932a: 337.
Meimuna opalifera formosans [sic] (Walker, 1850) (misspelling of Dundubia opalifera Walker, 1850) in Kato, 1932a: 217.
Meimuna opalifera nigroventria [sic] (Walker, 1850) (misspelling of Dundubia opalifera Walker, 1850) in Kato, 1932a: 217.
Meimuna oplifera [sic] (Walker, 1850) in Chen, 1933b: 19.
Meimuna oplifera [sic] (Walker, 1850) (misspelling of Dundubia opalifera Walker, 1850) in Chen, 1933b: 19.
Meimuna longipennis Kato, 1937f: 675.
Meimuna opalifera var. punctata Kato, 1932 (subjective synonym of Dundubia opalifera Walker, 1850) in Okano, 1943a: 195.
Meimuna operlifera [sic] (Walker, 1850) in Liu, 1950: 287.
Meimuna operlifera [sic] (Walker, 1850) (misspelling of Dundubia opalifera Walker, 1850) in Liu, 1950: 287.
Meimuna opalifera longipennis Kato, 1937 in Chen, 1957: 219.
Meimuna longipennis Kato, 1937 (subjective synonym of Dundubia opalifera Walker, 1850) in Ishihara, 1961c: 19.
Meimuna opalifera var. nigroventris Kato, 1927 (subjective synonym of Dundubia opalifera Walker, 1850) in Ishihara, 1961c: 19.
Meimuna opaliferia [sic] (Walker, 1850) in Boulard, 1965a: 504.
Meimuna opaliferia [sic] (Walker, 1850) (misspelling of Dundubia opalifera Walker, 1850) in Boulard, 1965a: 504.
Meimura [sic] oparifera [sic] (Walker, 1850) in Matsushima, Yokotani, Lui, Sumida, Honda, Sato, Kaneki, Takeda, Chuman, Ozaki, Asai, Nose, Onoue, Ito, Tominaga, Shimohigashi & Shimohigashi, 2003a: 420.
Meimura [sic] oparifera [sic] (Walker, 1850) (misspelling of Dundubia opalifera Walker, 1850) in Matsushima, Yokotani, Lui, Sumida, Honda, Sato, Kaneki, Takeda, Chuman, Ozaki, Asai, Nose, Onoue, Ito, Tominaga, Shimohigashi & Shimohigashi, 2003a: 420.
Meimuna opalifer [sic] (Walker, 1850) in Sanborn & Villet, 2014a: 283.

Meimuna opalifer [sic] (Walker, 1850) (misspelling of Dundubia opalifera Walker, 1850) in Sanborn & Villet, 2014a: 283.
Sinfonia opalifera (Walker, 1850) in Lee, 2025: 153.

Nomenclature references (17)

Boulard, M. (1965a) Notes sur la biologie larvaire des cigales (Hom. Cicadidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France, (Nouvelle série), 1(3), 503–521.
Chen, K.-F. (1933b) A list of Chinese known Cicadidae. Entomology and Phytopathology, 1(Suppl.), 1–48.
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Chen, K.-F. (1957) Cicadas of Mt. Omei with Description of a new species and some synonymical notes (Homoptera: Cicadidae). Journal of Zhejiang Agricultural University, 2(2), 213–269.

Distant, W.L. (1891a) A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. West, Newman & Co.; R. Friedlander & Sohn. London; Berlin, 49–96 + pls. v-ix.

Ishihara, T. (1961c) Hemiptera: Cicadidae. In Insecta Japonica. Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp. 1–36, pls. 1–4. [in Japanese]

Kato, M. (1925b) Japanese Cicadidae, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 15, 1–47.

Kato, M. (1927a) A catalogue of Japanese Cicadidae, with descriptions of new genus, species and others. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 17, 19–41.

Kato, M. (1932a) Monograph of Cicadidae. Sanseido. Tokyo, 450 pp. [in Japanese]

Kato, M. (1937f) Semi (15). The Entomological World, 5, 675–684.

Kirkaldy, G.W. (1901c) Notes on some Rhynchota collected chiefly in China and Japan by Mr. R. B. Fletcher, R. N., F. E. S. Entomologist, 34, 49–52.

Lee, Y.J. (2025) Two new genera of Aolina (Dundubiini), with a key to the genera of the subtribe (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Fragmenta Entomologica, 57(2), 149–158. https://doi.org/10.13133/2284-4880/1799

Liu, G.K.-C. (1950) Cicadas in Chinese culture (including the Silver-fish). Osiris, 9, 275–396.

Matsushima, A., Yokotani, S., Lui, X., Sumida, K., Honda, T., Sato, S., Kaneki, A., Takeda, Y., Chuman, Y., Ozaki, M., Asai, D., Nose, T., Onoue, H., Ito, Y., Tominaga, Y., Shimohigashi, Y. & Shimohigashi, M. (2003a) Molecular cloning and circadian expression profile of insect neuropeptide PDF in black blowfly, Phormia regina. Letters in Peptide Science., 10, 419–430.

Okano, K. (1943a) [On Cicadidae from Hokkaido.]. Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society, 17, 185–198.

Oshanin, V.T. (1908b) Verzeichnis der palaearktischen hemipteren, mit besonderer berücksichtigung ihrer verteilung im Russischen reiche. II. Band. Homoptera. III. Lieferung. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 13, 385–492.

Sanborn, A.F. & Villet, M.H. (2014a) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). USA: Elsevier Science Publishing, 1001 pp.
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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Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: opal-bearing

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
species	1	0	17	18