Species Oncometopia orbona - Broad-headed Sharpshooter

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range

Sharpshooters, mating - Oncometopia orbona - male - female

broad-headed sharpshooter - Oncometopia orbona

Which Sharpshooter? - Oncometopia orbona

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 Cicadellinae (Sharpshooters)

Tribe Proconiini

Genus Oncometopia

Species orbona (Broad-headed Sharpshooter)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Oncometopia orbona (Fabricius)

Orig. Comb: Cicada orbona Fabricius 1798

Numbers

4 spp. n. of Mex.

Size

circa 11-12 mm (specimen measurement, Durham NC--P. Coin)

Range

The only common, widely-distributed member of this genus in the Eastern US (per Dr Andy Hamilton's comment).

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 24 September, 2004 - 4:51pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Hannah Nendick-Mason, Bug Eric, Mike Quinn
Last updated 7 January, 2011 - 1:54am

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