Pomponia linearis

Wang, Jiali, Hayashi, Masami & Wei, Cong, 2025, Phylogeny, biogeography, and diversiFIcation of the cicada Pomponia linearis and its allies (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (4) : -

Pomponia linearis species group

Pomponia linearis (Walker, 1850)

Cicada linearis Walker 1850: 48 .

Cicada fusca Hayashi 1984: 55 .

Dundubia linearis Hayashi (1984): 55 ; Chou et al. 1997: 188; Sanborn 2013: 345.

Pomponia linearis Hayashi (1984): 55 ; Chou et al. 1997: 188; Duffels and Hayashi 2006: 189; Lee 2009: 306; Sanborn 2009: 308, 2013: 344; Boulard 2013: 104.

Pomponia tuba Lee 2009: 307 .

Pomponia oaoeoamana Kato, 1933 in Metcalf 1963: 850 syn. n.

Materials examined: 5♂♂, 1♀ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Emei , Sichuan Province, 20 June 2009, Weixin Huo leg. ; 10♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Qingcheng , Sichuan Province, 24 June 2009, Weixin Huo leg. ; 10♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Donghui , Lancang Co., Yunnan Province, 25 May 2011, Xiao Chen leg. ; 10♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Xi, Kunming , Yunnan Province, 17 May 2009, Libin Ma leg. ; 10♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Xishuangbanna , Yunnan Province, 23 July 2007, Guoxi Xue leg. ; 10♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Longtang Co., Zhejiang Province, 15 June 2016, Yunxiang Liu leg. ; 25♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Tianmu , Zhejiang Province, 26 June 2016, Yunxiang Liu leg. ; 11♂♂, 5♀♀ ( NWAFU), China: Quanzhou , Fujian Province, 14 July 2016, Xu Wang leg. ; 5♂♂, 3♀♀ ( NWAFU), China: Dehua Co., Fujian Province, 2 June 2010, Xiangqun Yuan leg. ; 5♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Changde , Hunan Province, 4 June 2015, Xu Wang leg. ; 11♂♂ ( NWAFU), Enshi , Hubei Province, 10 July 2019, Xiaodong Peng leg. ; 9♂♂ ( NWAFU), Mt. Bamian , Hunan Province, 29 July 2019, Siyue Wang leg. ; 3♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Fanjing , Guizhou Province, 28 July 2001 ; 12♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Guilin , Guangxi Province, 18 July 2019, Siyue Wang leg. ; 15♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Jianfengling , Hainan Province, 5 May 2011, Mingsheng Yang leg. ; 15♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Limu , Hainan Province, 8 May 2011, Mingsheng Yang leg. ; 1♂ ( NWAFU), China: Baling, Taiwan Province , 12 June 1991 ; 10♂♂, 4♀♀ ( NWAFU), China: Nanling National Park , Ruyuan Co., Guangdong Province, 11 June2020, Jiali Wang leg. ; 6♂♂, 2♀♀ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Wuzhi , Hainan Province, 25 August 2020, Jiali Wang leg. ; 2♂♂, 2♀♀ ( NWAFU), China: Chebaling National Park , Ruyuan Co., Guangdong Province, 23 July 2020, Jiali Wang leg. ; 9♂♂, 5♀♀ ( NWAFU), China: Dupangling National Park , Yongzhou Co., Hunan Province, 15 July 2020, Jiali Wang leg. ; 10♂♂, 4♀♀ ( NWAFU), China: Huaping Natural Reservation Area , Longsheng Co., Guangxi Province, 15 July 2020, Jiali Wang leg. ; 12♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Tiantai , Qionglai Co., Sichuan Province, 20 July 2021, Jiali Wang leg. ; 15♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Baihualing , Longyang Co., Yunnan Province, 10 June 2022, Jiali Wang leg. ; 12♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Rongjiang Co., Guizhou Province, 24 June 2022, Jiali Wang leg. ; 3♂♂ ( NWAFU), Japan: Mt. Omotodake, Ishigaki Island, Ryukyu Islands , 1 July 2003, M. Hayashi leg. ; 2♂♂ ( NWAFU), Japan: Shirahama For. Road, Iriomote Island, Ryukyu Islands , 10 September 2003, M. Hayashi leg. ; 2♂♂ ( NWAFU), China: Taitung Co., Taiwan Province , 22 June 2002, M. Hayashi leg.

Distribution: China (Anhui, Chongqin, Fujian, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, and Zhejiang); Bhutan, India, Japan, Nepal, Philippines, Tailand, and Vietnam.

Remarks: Pomponia linearis has been proved to be different from the type species of the genus, P. picta (Supporting Information, Fig. S1A) ( Duffels and Hayashi 2006). Pomponia linearis together with its allies probably represents an independent genus, and a phylogenetic assessment of phylogenetic affinities in Pomponia is expected in the future.

Chou et al. (1997) identiFIed that the dominant species of Pomponia occurring in China was P. linearis . Duffels and Hayashi (2006) came to the conclusion that specimens from Assam of India and those from Bhutan, Nepal, Tailand, and Vietnam belong to P. linearis . However, Lee (2009) indicated that P.ponderosa was misidentiFIed as P. linearis by Chou et al. (1997), which led to the identity of the dominant species of Pomponia occurring in China remaining problematic. In this paper, a large number of individuals of ‘ P. linearis ’ collected from China are identiFIed to be conspeciFIc to the individuals collected from Vietnam and Ryukyu Islands based on both molecular phylogenetic analyses ( Figs 2B, 3) and analysis of genetic distances (Table 2), which conFIrm that the dominant species of Pomponia occurring in China is P. linearis , and P. oaoeoamana is recognized to be a new synonym of P. linearis . According to investigations of ~ 400 specimens, we revealed that this species exhibits remarkable morphological variation ( Figs 5–7).