Tosena (from 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.) is a genus of cicadas from South-East Asia.Distant, W. L. 1889-1892. A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. West, Newman & Co., London Species formerly included in Tosena are Distantalna splendida, Formotosena montivaga, Formotosena seebohmi, Trengganua sibylla and two species now placed in Vittagaeana, with Tosena the only genus of tribe 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. DOI
List of species The Global Biodiversity Information Facility 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.
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External links A photo of Tosena paviei