Formotosena

Formotosena
Formotosena seebohmi, female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Cicadomorpha
Superfamily: Cicadoidea
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Tibiceninae
Tribe: Polyneurini
Genus: Formotosena
Kato, 1925
Species

See text.

Formotosena is a genus of cicadas from Southeast Asia erected by Kato in 1925 to accommodate the species Formotosena seebohmi which was previously placed in the genus Tosena.[1] Members of Formotosena are found in Southeast Asia, including southern China, Hainan and Taiwan.[2]

List of species

References

  1. Kato, M. 1925. Japanese Cicadidae, with descriptions of some new species and genera. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 15:55-76
  2. Metcalf, Zeno Payne (1963). "Section II: Gaeninae and Cicadinae". General catalogue of the Homoptera, fascicle VIII, Cicadoidea, part 1. Cicadidae. Washington, DC: Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agricultur (for North Carolina State College). pp. 587919.
  3. Boulard, Michel (2009). "Sur la naissance imaginale de Formotosena montivaga (Distant), grande et somptueuse Cigale asienne. Clarification conceptuelle à propos de cet événement (Rhynchota Cicadomorpha Cicadidae)". L'Entomologiste (in French). 65 (4): 175180. Abstract
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