Genus Cacama - "Cactus Dodgers"

Classification · Numbers · Internet References

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 Cicadidae (Cicadas)

Subfamily Cicadinae

Genus Cacama ("Cactus Dodgers")

Numbers

Cacama californica Davis 1919

Cacama carbonaria Davis 1919

Cacama crepitans (Van Duzee 1914)

Cacama dissimilis [davisi Moore, ??]

Cacama dissimilis (Distant 1881)

Cacama furcata Davis

Cacama maura Distant 1881

Cacama valvata (Uhler 1888)

Cacama variegata Davis 1919

Internet References

Insect Singers, Sound files for North American Cicada species can be found here - best site for sound files!

Insect Singers, Sound files for the eastern species

Insect Singers, Sound files for the western species

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 14 June, 2006 - 12:17pm
Additional contributions by William H. Reynolds
Last updated 22 February, 2012 - 12:32pm

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