Pomponia Stål, 1866

Sadasivan, Kalesh, 2021, A new species of Pomponia Stål, 1866 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from the Western Ghats, with notes on the status of P. linearis (Walker, 1850) from southern India, Zootaxa 5040 (3), pp. 388-403 : 392

Genus Pomponia Stål, 1866

Type species: Pomponia picta (Walker, 1870) , as per Duffels & Hayashi (2006)

Diagnosis. Large-sized, male body longer than 35 mm. Vertex of head narrower and somewhat equal to the distance between eyes; posterior pronotal collar broad; broad pale transverse band across the postclypeus; lateral margin of pronotum dentate. Wings hyaline; forewing basal vein of apical cell 1 extremely short; forewing apex sharp; costal margin of forewing hardly concave. Metanotum entirely concealed at midline. Male opercula small, scale-like, wider than long, and nearly contiguous to each other. Larger part of the timbal concealed with timbal covering. Male abdomen gradually tapering to apex; lateral surfaces of 3rd and 4th abdominal sterna without tubercle-like projections; 8th abdominal tergum with no or little white pollinosity; lateral pygofer lobes acute; a trapezoid uncus with a medial incision suggesting the fusion of two short & broad lobes; a pair of claspers with each with two spines protruding from below the uncus; distinctly protruding paramedian basal pygofer lobes or basal pygofer lobes that are placed laterally adjacent to the sides of the pygofer ( Distant 1906a; Lee & Hayashi 2003; Duffels & Hayashi 2006, Pham et al. 2015).