The empress cicada (''Megapomponia imperatoria'') is a species of

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 ...

from

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

. It is the largest species of cicada with a head-body length of about and a wingspan of .Flindt, R. (2006). ''Amazing Numbers in Biology'', p. 10.

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Invertebrates of Malaysia Taxa named by John O. Westwood Insects described in 1842 Dundubiini {{Cicadidae-stub