''Thopha'' is a genus of
cicada
The cicadas () are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into tw ...
native to Australia. Five species are recognised, the double drummer (''
Thopha saccata
''Thopha saccata'', the double drummer, is the largest Australian species of cicada and reputedly the loudest insect in the world. Documented by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1803, it was the first described and named cicada ...
''), the northern double drummer (''
T. sessiliba''), the golden drummer (''
T. colorata''), ''
T. emmotti'' and ''
T. hutchinsoni''.
Within ''sessiliba'', two subspecies are recognized, the nominotypical form and ''T. sessiliba clamoris'' Moulds and Hill.
[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]
Genetic and morphological data show that ''Thopha'' is closely related to the genus ''Arunta''; together they comprise the trib
Thophini
References
Thophini
Insects of Australia
Cicadidae genera
Taxa named by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot
Taxa named by Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville
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