Songga
| Songga | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Subfamily: | Cicadinae |
| Tribe: | Dundubiini |
| Genus: | Lee, 2016 |
| Species: | S. scitula
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| Binomial name | |
| Songga scitula (Distant, 1888)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Songga is a monotypic genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Dundubiini (subtribe Dundubiina); it was erected by Young June Lee in 2016,[2] 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;[3] he named it from the Latin: 'scitula': meaning neat or elegant. This species has been recorded subsequently from India, China and elsewhere in Indochina.[1]
References
- ^ a b World Auchenorrhyncha Database: species Songga scitula (Distant, 1888) (retrieved 18 June 2025)
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.