Tosena melanoptera is a cicada species from Southeast Asia. It was described by White in 1846White, A. 1846. Description of some apparently new species of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Annals & magazine of natural history 17:330-333 from material collected in North India. It has also been recorded from ThailandSanborn, 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, USABoulard, M. 2008. Platylomia operculata Distant, 1913, a cicada that takes water from hot springs and becomes victim of the people (Rhynchota: Cicadomorpha: Cicadidae). Acta Entomologica Slovenica 16:105-116 and Vietnam.Pham, H.T., Yang, J.T. 2009. A contribution to the Cicadidae fauna of Vietnam (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha), with one new species and twenty new records. Zootaxa 2249:1–19
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