''Meimuna'' is a genus of Asian
cicada
The cicadas () are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two ...
s in the tribe
Dundubiini
The Dundubiini are a tribe (biology), tribe of cicadas in the family Cicadidae, found in the Palearctic realm, Palearctic, Indomalayan realm, Indomalaya, Australasia, and the Western Pacific. There are at least 180 described species in Dundubiini ...
(subtribe Aolina);
[ it was erected by ]William Lucas Distant
William Lucas Distant (12 November 1845 Rotherhithe – 4 February 1922 Wanstead) was an English entomologist.
Biography Early years
Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of whaling captain Alexander Distantspecies:B.R. Subba Rao, Rao, B.R ...
in 1905.[Distant WL (1905) Rhynochotal notes. -- XXIX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 7), 15, 58–70.] Species have been recorded from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, China, Korea, Japan and Indochina
Mainland Southeast Asia (historically known as Indochina and the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to th ...
.[ GBIF: ''Meimuna'' Distant, 1905]
(retrieved 14 May 2025).
Species
The ''World Auchenorrhyncha Database''[World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus ''Meimuna'' Distant, 1905]
(retrieved 16 May 2025) includes:
# '' Meimuna boninensis''
# '' Meimuna bonininsulana''
# '' Meimuna cassandra''
# '' Meimuna chekianga''
# '' Meimuna chekiangensis''
# '' Meimuna choui''
# '' Meimuna crassa''
# '' Meimuna duffelsi''
# '' Meimuna gakokizana''
# '' Meimuna gamameda''
# '' Meimuna goshizana''
# '' Meimuna infuscata''
# '' Meimuna iwasakii''
# '' Meimuna khadiga''
# '' Meimuna kuroiwae''
# '' Meimuna microdon''
# '' Meimuna mongolica''
# '' Meimuna multivocalis''
# '' Meimuna neomongolica''
# '' Meimuna opalifera''
# '' Meimuna oshimensis''
# '' Meimuna pallida''
# '' Meimuna protopalifera''
# '' Meimuna raxa''
# '' Meimuna silhetana''
# '' Meimuna subviridissima''
# '' Meimuna tavoyana''
# '' Meimuna tripurasura'' - type species (as ''Dundubia tripurasura'' )
# '' Meimuna velitaris''
References
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Dundubiini
Cicadidae genera
Taxa named by William Lucas Distant
Taxa described in 1905
Hemiptera of Asia