Tosena melanoptera

Tosena melanoptera
Tosena melanoptera, male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Family:	Cicadidae
Genus:	Tosena
Species:	T. melanoptera
Binomial name
Tosena melanoptera (White, 1846)
Synonyms
Tosena melanopteryx Kirkaldy, 1909 [1]

Tosena melanoptera is a cicada species from Southeast Asia. It was described by White in 1846 ^[2] from material collected in North India. It has also been recorded from Thailand ^{[3] [4]} and Vietnam. ^[5]

References

1. Price, Benjamin Wills; Allan, Elizabeth Louise; Marathe, Kiran; Sarkar, Vivek; Simon, Chris; Kunte, Krushnamegh (2016-07-20). "The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography". Biodiversity Data Journal. 4 (4) e8051. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e8051 . PMC   5018104 . PMID   27660527.
2. White, A. 1846. Description of some apparently new species of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Annals & magazine of natural history 17:330-333
3. Sanborn, A.F., Phillips, P.K. and Sites, R.W. 2005. The Cicadas of Thailand (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Poster. 2005 Ecological Society of America Annual meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
4. Boulard, M. 2008. Platylomia operculata Distant, 1913, a cicada that takes water from hot springs and becomes victim of the people (Rhynchota: Cicadomorpha: Cicadidae). Acta Entomologica Slovenica 16:105-116
5. Pham, H.T., Yang, J.T. 2009. A contribution to the Cicadidae fauna of Vietnam (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha), with one new species and twenty new records. Zootaxa 2249:1–19