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Species Cacama moorei - Moore's Cactus Dodger

cicadas on rock and saguaro - Cacama moorei

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 moorei (Moore's Cactus Dodger)

Other Common Names

"Moore's Cactus Dodger" (proposed)

Explanation of Names

Cacama moorei sp. n. Sanborn & M. Heath

(Fig. 3)

Cacama dissimilis Davis 1919: 70, 71, 76, 79, Plate XIV fig. 2 (misidentified).

Cacama dissimilis Beamer and Beamer 1930: 297–298 (misidentified).

Cacama n. sp. 2 Sanborn and Phillips 1995: 481.

Etymology. The species is named in honor of Thomas E. Moore for his long commitment to the study of North

American cicadas.

Type series. Holotype male UNITED STATES: “ARIZONA Pima County / Catalina Mtns. Mt. Lemmon /

Babat Duag Vista Pt. / 24 June 1998 / A. Sanborn, coll. 1” (FSCA).

Identification

Male opercula primarily orange, reaching to sternite IV, ventral surface orange, rostrum reaching to middle of posterior coxae,

found in the Sonoran Desert (Fig. 3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. moorei Sanborn and Heath sp. n.

Note - the venter in both genders is heavily pruinose, but the sternites, males' opercula and ventral exoskeleton are typically orange in color as described above.

The call is a metallic chatter.

initially identified as C. valvata but later identified from collected material as C. moorei

Video courtesy of EB! Thanks for such a great video and recording!

Range

USA, Arizona: found across the state of Arizona running in a wide band from the Mexican border north across the state to nr. the Nevada & Utah borders (Map in Sanborn's paper)

MEXICO: n. Mexico ("Sonoran Desert")

Type series. Holotype male UNITED STATES: “ARIZONA Pima County / Catalina Mtns. Mt. Lemmon /

Babat Duag Vista Pt. / 24 June 1998 / A. Sanborn, coll. 1” (FSCA).

Habitat

Scrub & desert

Food

Cacti (opuntia?)