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Species Cacama variegata - Variegated Cactus Dodger

Cacama sp. - Cacama variegata - female Cacama sp. - Cacama variegata - female Cacama variegata - male Cacama valvata? - Cacama variegata Cacama valvata? - Cacama variegata
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 Cicadoidea (Cicadas)
Family Cicadidae (Cicadas)
Subfamily Cicadinae
Tribe Tacuini
Genus Cacama (Cactus Dodgers)
Species variegata (Variegated Cactus Dodger)
Other Common Names
"Variegated Cactus Dodger" (proposed)
Identification
NOTE: "reddish-brown coloration to the pronotum and posterior edging distinctly reddish-brown "
TL - "San Benito, Texas"

Refer to pages 68-79 for details on th Cacama spp. in the USA (variegata p. 73)
Range
se. Texas and adj. ne. Mexico
("Rio Grande Basin")
TL - "San Benito, Texas"
Habitat
Arid Scrub, Scrub adj. to coastal marshes, and mixed habitats in se. TX
Season
Early
(April-May)
Food
Likely various
Life Cycle
Lit. review has not been revealing
Remarks
Common and alert!
See Also
Several species
sw. USA - Mexico (Central America)

sw. USA (California) & MEXICO
Cacama californica Davis 1919
Cacama crepitans (Van Duzee 1914)
Cacama furcata Davis - (Not known from USA)

sw. USA (ARIZONA) & MEXICO
Cacama moorei sp. n. Sanborn & M. Heath
sw. USA (several states) & MEXICO
Cacama valvata (Uhler 1888)

USA, se. TEXAS & Adj. ne. MEXICO
Cacama variegata Davis 1919

USA, Central TEXAS ("hill country")
Cacama collinaplaga sp. n. Sanborn & M. Heath

CENTRAL AMERICA / MEXICO (not known from the USA)
Cacama carbonaria Davis 1919
Cacama dissimilis (Distant 1881)/[davisi Moore, ??]
Cacama longirostris (Distant, ?)
Cacama maura Distant 1881
Cacama pygmaea sp. n. Sanborn
Internet References
NOTE: "reddish-brown coloration to the pronotum and posterior edging distinctly reddish-brown "
Refer to pages 68-79 for details on th Cacama spp. in the USA (variegata p. 73)
Contributed by Bill Reynolds on 7 February, 2012 - 12:17pm
Additional contributions by David Ferguson
Last updated 1 August, 2013 - 3:58pm

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