Tosena

Genus of true bugs

Tosena

Tosena fasciata specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Hemiptera
Suborder:  | Auchenorrhyncha
Family:  | Cicadidae
Subfamily:  | Cicadinae
Tribe:  | Tosenini
Genus:  | Tosena
Amyot & Serville, 1843
Species

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Tosena (from Chinese: 篤蟬; pinyin: dǔchán; Wade–Giles: tu3 ch'an2; lit. 'thick cicada'[1]) is a genus of cicadas from South-East Asia.[2][3] Species formerly included in Tosena are Distantalna splendida, Formotosena montivaga, Formotosena seebohmi, Trengganua sibylla[4] and two species now placed in Vittagaeana, with Tosena the only genus of tribe Tosenini.[5]

## List of species

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The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists:[2]

1. Tosena albata Distant, 1878
2. Tosena depicta Distant, 1888
3. Tosena fasciata (Fabricius, 1787) \- type species
4. Tosena melanoptera (White, 1846)
5. Tosena mearesiana (Westwood, 1842)

Note: Two species, Tosena dives and T. paviei, in this "taxonomically unstable group of Asian cicada tribes", were moved by Hill et al. in 2021 to the new genus Vittagaeana: now placed in the Gaeanini.

## References

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1. ^ Amyot CJB, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Homoptères. Homoptera Latr. [In] Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Deuxième partie: 455-483. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 676 pages.
2. ^ a b "Tosena Amyot & Serville, 1843". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
3. ^ Distant, W. L. 1889-1892. A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. West, Newman & Co., London
4. ^ "Tosenini - Cicadas of India". www.indiancicadas.org. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
5. ^ Hill KBR, Marshall DC, Marathe K, Moulds MS, Lee YJ, Pham HT, Mohagan AB, Sarkar V, Price BW, Duffels JP, Schouten MA, de Boer AJ, Kunte K, Simon C (2021) The molecular systematics and diversification of a taxonomically unstable group of Asian cicada tribes related to Cicadini Latreille, 1802 (Hemiptera : Cicadidae). Invertebrate Systematics, 35, 570–601. DOI

## External links

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* A photo of Tosena paviei
* Media related to Tosena at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Tosena|

* Wikidata: Q7827588
* Wikispecies: Tosena
* CoL: 8HS88
* GBIF: 4778351
* iNaturalist: 538565
* IRMNG: 1232684
* NCBI: 2654403
* Open Tree of Life: 4219640
* Plazi: 4B598785-FFC0-946D-FF68-A96CFB40FC44
* World Auchenorrhyncha DB: 12161

*[lit.]: Literal translation