Thopha

{{Short description|Genus of true bugs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Thophasaccatasideon.jpg

| image_caption = Female Thopha saccata (behind, left) male (front, right)

| image_alt = Photograph of two brown and black cicadas mating on fallen leaves

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| taxon = Thopha

| authority = Amyot and Serville, 1843

| type_species = Tettigonia saccata

| type_species_authority = Fabricius, 1803

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

Thopha colorata

Thopha emmotti

Thopha hutchinsoni

Thopha saccata

Thopha sessiliba

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Thopha (from {{langx|he|תף|tof|lit=drum}}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.) is a genus of cicada native to Australia. Five species are recognised, the double drummer (Thopha saccata), the northern double drummer (T. sessiliba), the golden drummer (T. colorata), T. emmotti and T. hutchinsoni.{{cite journal|last=Moulds|first=Maxwell Sydney|title=A review of the tribe Thophini Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) with the description of a new species of Thopha Amyot Serville |journal=Insect Systematics and Evolution |year=2001 |pages= 195–203|volume=32|issue=2|issn=1399-560X|doi=10.1163/187631201X00155}}{{cite journal|last=Moulds|first=Maxwell Sydney |title=A review of the genera of Australian cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea)|journal=Zootaxa|date=30 April 2012|volume=3287|pages=1–262 [56–57] |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3287.1.1 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2012/3287.html}} 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 tribe [https://australianmuseum.net.au/journal/moulds-2015-rec-aust-mus-672-5566 Thophini].