Pomponia is a genus of cicadas from Asia.[1] A group of species previously placed in Pomponia, containing the largest cicada species found on earth, have recently been moved to Megapomponia.[2][3] However, the remaining species still form a very heterogeneous group and Duffels and Hayashi (2006) mentioned that several species should probably be transferred to genera like Terpnosia and Leptosemia.[4]
^Metcalf, Z.P. 1963. General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section II. Gaeaninae and Cicadinae. i-vii, 587–585. – North Carolina State College, Raleigh, North Carolina.
^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
^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
^Duffels, J.P., Hayashi, M. 2006. On the identity of the cicada species Pomponia picta (Walker) (=P. fusca (Olivier)) and P. linearis (Walker) (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 149: 189-201 pdf
