Tosena melanoptera is a cicada species from Southeast Asia. It was described by White in 1846[2] from material collected in North India. It has also been recorded from Thailand[3][4] and Vietnam.[5]
↑ White, 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
↑ Sanborn, 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
↑ Boulard, 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
↑ 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
