Tosena melanoptera is a cicada species from Southeast Asia. It was described by White in 1846[1] from material collected in North India. It has also been recorded from Thailand[2][3] and Vietnam.[4]
| Tosena melanoptera | |
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| Tosena melanoptera, male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Genus: | Tosena |
| Species: | T. melanoptera
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| Binomial name | |
| Tosena melanoptera (White, 1846)
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References
edit- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
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