''Tosena'' (from zh, t=篤蟬, hp=dǔchán, w=tu3 ch'an2, l=thick cicadaAmyot CJB, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Homoptères. Homoptera Latr. n''Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Deuxième partie'': 455-483. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 676 pages.) is a genus 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 ...

s from

South-East Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania. Southeast Asia i ...

. Species formerly included in ''Tosena'' are ''

Distantalna splendida ''Distantalna splendida'' is a cicada species from Southeast Asia, and the sole member of the genus ''Distantalna''. It was previously placed in the genus '' Tosena''. It was described by William Lucas Distant in 1878. A characteristic that dist ...

'', '' Formotosena montivaga'', '' Formotosena seebohmi'', '' Trengganua sibylla'' and two species now placed in '' Vittagaeana'', with ''Tosena'' the only genus of

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...

Tosenini.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
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List of species

The

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lists: # '' Tosena albata'' Distant, 1878 # '' Tosena depicta'' Distant, 1888 # '' Tosena fasciata'' (Fabricius, 1787) - type species # '' Tosena melanoptera'' (White, 1846) # '' 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 Gaeanini is a tribe of cicadas in the family Cicadidae, found in the Palearctic and Indomalaya The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of ...

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A photo of Tosena paviei
* {{Taxonbar, from=Q7827588 Hemiptera of Asia Taxa named by Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville Taxa named by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot Taxa described in 1843 Tosenini Cicadidae genera