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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadomorpha) » Leafhoppers and Treehoppers (Membracoidea) » Typical Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Sharpshooters (Cicadellinae) » Cicadellini » Draeculacephala

Genus Draeculacephala

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited
Sharpshooter - Draeculacephala constricta Waterlettuce Leafhopper - Draeculacephala inscripta Draeculacephala? - Draeculacephala noveboracensis Draeculacephala? - Draeculacephala floridana Leafhopper in Beaver County PA - Draeculacephala mollipes Sharpshooter Leafhopper - Draeculacephala septemguttata hopper - Draeculacephala Cicadellinae - Draeculacephala
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 Cicadellinae (Sharpshooters)
Tribe Cicadellini
Genus Draeculacephala
Other Common Names
Doggers
Explanation of Names
Draeculacephala Ball 1902
Numbers
21 spp. in our area(1), 26 total described(2)
Identification
Usually green with triangular head projecting to a sharp point • many species cannot be differentiated based on male genitalia alone
keys in(2)(3)
Range
Throughout the New World; most diverse in the so.US and neotropics, but present throughout Canada
D. angulifera (Walker 1851): n.US & Canada; Rocky Mts.
D. antica (Walker 1851): US east of Rocky Mts.; Canada
D. balli Van Duzee 1915: se.US (Coastal plain & Piedmont)
D. bradleyi Van Duzee 1915: Coastal plain and se.US; Cuba
D. californica Davidson & Frazier 1949: sw.US & Mexico
D. constricta Davidson & DeLong 1943: US east of Rocky Mts.
D. crassicornis Van Duzee 1915: w.US & Canada
D. floridana Ball 1901: Gulf Coast
D. inscripta Van Duzee 1915: se.US
D. minerva Ball 1927: se.US & Mexico
D. mollipes (Say 1830): e.US & Canada
D. navicula Hamilton 1985: TX & Mexico
D. noveboracensis (Fitch 1851): Canada & n.US
D. pagoda Ball 1927: FL
D. paludosa Ball & China 1933: Canada & n.US
D. portola Ball 1927: Coastal se.US
D. producta (Walker 1851): FL & Cuba
D. robinsoni Hamilton 1967: e.NA
D. savannahae Hamilton 1985: SE coastal plain
D. septemguttata (Walker 1851): se.US
D. soluta Gibson 1919: AZ TX; Mesoamerica (museum specimens exist, but no published US records)
D. clypeata is likely to be found in TX
Habitat
grasslands, lawns, fields, etc., some rare spp. in moist habitats such as saltmarshes, bogs, &c.(4)
Food
hosts: primarily grasses & sedges • most species are polyphagous, those restricted to moist habitats tend to be specialsts
Remarks
can damage forage crops(4)
See Also
Helochara common in the north, head more bluntl • Xyphon so.US, head more blunt & often w/ochraceous markings
Prairiana • Hortensia similis (Gulf states)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Systematics of the leafhopper genus Draeculacephala Ball (Homoptera: Cicadellidae)
Dietrich C.H. 1994. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 120: 87-112.
3.Review of Draeculacephala Ball (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae)
Hamilton K.G.A. 1985. Entomologische Abhandlungen, Staatl. Mus. Tierkunde Dresden 49: 83-103.
4.The leafhoppers, or Cicadellidae, of Illinois (Eurymelinae - Balcluthinae)
Dwight Moore Delong. 1948. Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey, Volume 24, Article 2, State of Illinois.
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 26 July, 2004 - 8:47pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Mike Quinn, v belov, Marci Hess, antarctica
Last updated 17 December, 2023 - 2:42pm

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