Tosenini is a monogeneric tribe 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 in the subfamily
Cicadinae
The Cicadinae are a subfamily of cicadas, containing the translucent cicadas. They are robust cicadas and many have gaudy colors, but they generally lack the butterfly-like Opacity (optics), opaque wing markings found in many species of the rel ...
. Species in Tosenini have been recorded from the
Indomalayan realm
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 East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...
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[ but genera in this "taxonomically unstable group of Asian cicada tribes" have been placed elsewhere.][
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Genera
The tribe Tosenini is monogeneric:
* ''Tosena
''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 Encyclopédiqu ...
'' Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 - contained species now placed in ''Vittagaeana
''Vittagaeana'' is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Gaeanini, with species previously placed in ''Tosena'' moved by Hill ''et al.'' in 2021 within this "taxonomically unstable group of Asian cicada tribes".Hill KBR, Marshall DC, Marathe K, M ...
''[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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Ayuthiini
The following monotypic genera
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispe ...
have now been placed in the tribe Ayuthiini :BioLib.cz: tribus Ayuthiini Moulds, Lee & Marshall, 2021
(retrieved 3 May 2025)
# '' Ayuthia'' Distant, 1919
# '' Distantalna'' Boulard, 2009
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Tibiceninae
Hemiptera tribes
Hemiptera of Asia