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Genus Agallia

Leafhopper - Agallia constricta - female

Leafhopper - presumed Agallia - Agallia constricta

Leafhopper – genus Agallia? - Agallia constricta

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

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

Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (True Hoppers)

Infraorder Cicadomorpha (Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)

Superfamily Membracoidea (Leafhoppers and Treehoppers)

Family Cicadellidae (Typical Leafhoppers)

Subfamily Megophthalminae

Tribe Agalliini

Subtribe Agalliina

Genus Agallia

Explanation of Names

Agallia Curtis 1833

Numbers

at least 9 species in our area, 136 in total

Agallia barretti Ball, 1900: AZ; Mexico

Agallia bidactylata Oman, 1933: AZ

Agallia constricta Van Duzee, 1894: eastern U.S. and Canada

Agallia deleta Van Duzee, 1909: eastern U.S.

Agallia lingulata Van Duzee, 1907: eastern U.S.

Agallia nielsoni Freytag, 2003: TX, LA to Central America

Agallia obesa Oman, 1933: MS

Agallia pumila Oman, 1971: CA, OR, WA

Agallia quadripunctata (Provancher, 1872): trasncontinental U.S. and Canada

Identification

Nymph: the earlike processes between the eyes are distinctive. Dark members of the genus Ceratagallia can sometimes be confused for Agallia.

Remarks

This genus is highly polyphyletic and in need of revision. The New World members of this genus have been determined to be unrelated to the Old World type of this genus, Agallia consobrina.

Contributed by tom murray on 20 May, 2005 - 6:03am
Additional contributions by Stephen_WV, Beatriz Moisset, v belov, antarctica
Last updated 26 June, 2023 - 3:02am

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