Songga


Songga is a monotypic genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Dundubiini ; 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, which William Lucas Distant had originally named Pomponia scitula, was identified from a syntype male specimen from Burma, 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.