Tosena albata is a cicada species from Southeast Asia. It was described by William Lucas Distant in 1878Distant, W.L. 1878. Notes on some Hemiptera-Homoptera, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 26(2):173–179 who, however, subsequently regarded it as a variety of Tosena melanoptera.Distant, W. L. 1889-1892. A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. West, Newman & Co., London However, in 2000 Boulard confirmed the species status of Tosena albata by comparing its song with that of other Tosena species.Tosena albata (Distant, 1878), bonne espèce confirmée par l'acoustique. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Biologie et Evolution des Insectes. T. albata has hitherto been recorded from Thailand,Boulard, M. The cicadas of Thailand volume 2: taxonomy and sonic ethology. Monograph Series Volume 5. Siri Scientific Press, RochdaleSanborn, 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 Nepal,Naruse, K., Takagi, S. 1977. Records of six species of Cicadidae from Nepal, with description of a new species (Homoptera). Insecta matsumurana. Series entomology. New series, 11:73-80 North India,Atkinson, E.T. 1885. Notes on Indian Rhynchota, No. 3. Journal of the Asiatic Society Bengal. 54:76-117 and Northwestern HimalayaDistant, W.L. 1878. Notes on some Hemiptera-Homoptera, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 26(2):173–179
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