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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) » Cicadas (Cicadoidea) » Cicadas (Cicadidae) » Cicadinae » Tacuini » Cactus Dodgers (Cacama) » Cacama collinaplaga

Species Cacama collinaplaga

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Print References

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 collinaplaga (Cacama collinaplaga)

Explanation of Names

Cacama collinaplaga Sanborn & M. Heath 2011

Range

Central Texas "hill country" - Confirmed

Often confused with related taxa (C. valvata & C. variegata with which ther may be geographic overlap).

May possibly occur in adj. Oklahoma (??), w. Arkansas & s. Kansas extending west into the eastern range of C. valvata. (??)

Habitat

Scrub in the central Texas "hills"

Season

May-early July

Food

Associated with Cacti (Opuntia)

Life Cycle

Unknown but likely taking several years and most closely associated with cacti (Opuntia & allied Genera)

Remarks

Refer to the following similar species:

Cacama variegata Davis 1919

Cacama valvata (Uhler 1888)

Cacama moorei sp. n. Sanborn & M. Heath

It has been mentioned and noted by some cicada specialists, that C. collinaplaga is morphologically, as well as geographically, intermediate between Cacama variegata Davis 1919 and Cacama valvata (Uhler 1888). In support, the calls of all three are similar and may not be easily differentiated. There is some thought these taxa may be conspecific and representative of a cline. (??)

Observations also suggest the morphology and call of Cacama moorei sp. n. Sanborn & M. Heath to be very similar to those of the afore-mentioned.

Although currently considered to be separate taxa (based on morphology and geography), detailed genetic analysis of the 4 species may resolve some of the lingering questions.

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

Print References

ALLEN F. SANBORN, MAXINE S. HEATH, POLLY K. PHILLIPS & JAMES E. HEATH. (2011) The genus Cacama Distant, 1904 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with the description of three new species. Zootaxa 2897: 35–50.

Contributed by Bill Reynolds on 9 July, 2012 - 2:00pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 3 April, 2021 - 11:07pm

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