Pomponia Stål, 1866

Thai, Pham Hong & Yang, Jeng-Tze, 2009, A contribution to the Cicadidae fauna of Vietnam (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha), with one new species and twenty new records, Zootaxa 2249, pp. 1-19 : 8

Genus Pomponia Stål, 1866

Pomponia Stal, 1866 , Hem. Afr. IV, 6.

Type species: Dundubia linearis Walker, 1850 , List Hom., 1: 48.

The genus Pomponia is mainly distributed through the Oriental Region and contains 37 species ( Boulard, 2005b; Chou et al., 1997; Duffels and van der Laan, 1985; Metcalf, 1963b, Sanborn et al., 2007). This genus comprises a very heterogeneous group of species ( Duffels and Hayashi, 2006). Among them, species of the Pomponia linearis group defined by Duffels & Hayashi (2006) share the following characters: a broad pale transverse band across the postclypeus; acute lateral pygofer lobes; a trapezoidal uncus with medial incision suggesting the fusion of two short, broad lobes; and a pair of claspers, each with two spines, protruding from below the uncus.

Four described species occur in Vietnam: Pomponia linearis ( Walker, 1850) , Pomponia piceata Distant, 1905 , Pomponia lactea (Distant, 1887) , and Pomponia orientalis ( Distant, 1912) . Below we present a key to species of genus Pomponia from Vietnam, and describe a new species belonging to this species group.