Genus Agallia

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers

Hopper on Common Milkweed - Agallia quadripunctata

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)

Superfamily Cicadoidea

Family Cicadellidae (Leafhoppers)

Subfamily Megophthalminae

Genus Agallia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Agalliota is a name sometimes used as the genus name for American species to separate the New World species from those of the Old World.

Numbers

Nearctica lists 14 species under the name of Agalliota.

Contributed by tom murray on 20 May, 2005 - 6:03am
Additional contributions by Stephen Cresswell, Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 4 June, 2008 - 10:19am

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