{"id":8396,"date":"2018-10-04T20:44:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T03:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8396"},"modified":"2018-10-09T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T03:32:19","slug":"megapomponia-merula-distant-1905-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/megapomponia-merula-distant-1905-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Megapomponia merula (Distant, 1905)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Megapomponia merula<\/em><\/strong> (Distant, 1905) is a cicada found in Indonesia<\/strong>. Its name was once Pomponia merula<\/em>, but recently, that changed.<\/p>\n

There’s a dozen species in the Megapomponia<\/em> Boulard, 2005 genus. “Mega” refers to their large size. <\/p>\n

Scientific classification:<\/strong>
\nFamily: Cicadidae
\nSubfamily: Cicadinae
\nTribe: Dundubiini
\nSubTribe: Megapomponiina
\nGenus: Megapomponia<\/em>
\nSpecies: Megapomponia merula<\/em> (Distant, 1905)<\/p>\n

\"Megapomponia
\nThe image says Pomponia merula<\/em> but the cicada is now known as Megapomponia merula<\/em>.<\/p>\n

References:<\/h3>\n
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  1. \nThe illustration and genus description comes from the journal Genera Insectorum<\/strong>, and a specific article from 1913<\/strong> by W. L. Distant titled Homoptera. Fam. Cicadidae, Subfam, Cicadinae.<\/strong> Read it on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Species name information\/verification comes from Allen Sanborn’s Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Megapomponia merula (Distant, 1905) is a cicada found in Indonesia. Its name was once Pomponia merula, but recently, that changed. There’s a dozen species in the Megapomponia Boulard, 2005 genus. “Mega” refers to their large size. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Dundubiini SubTribe: Megapomponiina Genus: Megapomponia Species: Megapomponia merula (Distant, 1905) The image […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450,365,80,464,415],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-8396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dundubiini","category-genera-insectorum","category-indonesia","category-megapomponia","category-william-lucas-distant","tag-m-merula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}