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| Female Thopha saccata (behind, left) male (front, right) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Subfamily: | Cicadinae |
| Tribe: | Thophini |
| Genus: | Thopha Amyot and Serville, 1843 |
| Type species | |
| Tettigonia saccata Fabricius, 1803
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Thopha (from Hebrew: תף, romanized: tof, lit. 'drum'1) is a genus of cicadas native to Australia. They are also known as double drummers. Genetic and morphological data show that Thopha is closely related to the genus Arunta; together they comprise the tribe Thophini.
Species
There are five described species:23
- Thopha colorata Distant, 1907 (Orange Drummer, Golden Drummer)
- Thopha emmotti Moulds, 2001 (Desert Double Drummer)
- Thopha hutchinsoni Moulds, 2008 (Pilbara Double Drummer)
- Thopha saccata (Fabricius, 1803) (Eastern Double Drummer)
- Thopha sessiliba Distant, 1892 (Northern Double Drummer)
- T. s. sessiliba Distant, 1892
- T. s. clamoris Moulds & Hill, 20154
References
References
- 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.
- Moulds, Maxwell Sydney (2001). "A review of the tribe Thophini Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) with the description of a new species of Thopha Amyot Serville". Insect Systematics and Evolution. 32 (2): 195–203. doi:10.1163/187631201X00155. ISSN 1399-560X.
- Moulds, Maxwell Sydney (30 April 2012). "A review of the genera of Australian cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea)". Zootaxa. 3287: 1–262 [56–57]. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3287.1.1.
- Moulds, M.S., and K. B. R. Hill. 2015. Phylogeny for the tribe Thophini (Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) with the description of a new subspecies of Thopha sessiliba Distant from Western Australia. Rec. Aust. Mus. 67(2): 55-66