Songga

Songga
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Dundubiini
Genus: Songga
Lee, 2016
Species:
S. scitula
Binomial name
Songga scitula
(Distant, 1888)
Synonyms
  • Aola scitula (Distant, 1888) in Distant, 1906
  • Pomponia (Aola) scitula Distant, 1888
  • Meimuna scitula (Distant, 1888) in Lee, 2009
  • Haphsa scitula (Distant, 1888) in Ahmed & Sanborn, 2010

Songga is a monotypic genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Dundubiini (subtribe Dundubiina); it was erected by Young June Lee in 2016, who named it from the Korean: 송가 pronounced 'song-ga', meaning 'ode'.

Species

The single species is Songga scitula (Distant, 1888), which William Lucas Distant had originally named Pomponia scitula, was identified from a syntype male specimen from Burma (Myanmar), deposited at the Natural History Museum, London; he named it from the Latin: 'scitula': meaning neat or elegant. This species has been recorded subsequently from India, China and elsewhere in Indochina.

References

  1. 1 2 World Auchenorrhyncha Database: species Songga scitula (Distant, 1888) (retrieved 18 June 2025)
  2. ↑ Lee YJ (2016) Erections of Changa gen.nov. and Songga gen.nov. of Aolina (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Dundubiini) with taxonomic notes and a synonymization. Zootaxa, 4084(4), 596–600: p. 597.
  3. ↑ Distant WL (1888) Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. VIII. Enumeration of the Cicadidae collected by Mr. L. Fea in Burma and Tenasserim. Annali del Museo civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. (Ser. 2), 6, 453–459.