Genus Gargara

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

Gargara sp. - poss. Gargara genistae? - Gargara genistae

Gargara sp possibly genistae? - Gargara genistae

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 Membracidae (Typical Treehoppers)

Subfamily Centrotinae

Tribe Gargarini

Genus Gargara

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

member of the Old World tribe Gargarini (~30 genera total)(1)

Explanation of Names

Gargara Amyot & Serville 1843

Numbers

one or more adventive spp. in NA

Range

native to the Old World (15 spp. in the Palaearctic(2), well over a hundred in so./se. Asia, a few in Africa); G. genistae (transcontinental in Eurasia) that has been introduced into w. BC with its host plant (Scotch Broom), the eastern Canadian population seems to feed on willows; so the identification as G. genistae is tentative. It may actually be an Asian species, of which there are a number that are very similar. (based on Dr Hamilton's comments)

Remarks

Gargara genistae (Fabricius 1775): Introduced: CT, ME, NJ, also BC (3)

Works Cited

1.	Deitz L.L., Wallace M.S. (team leaders), et al. (2010-) Treehoppers: Aetalionidae, Melizoderidae, and Membracidae (Hemiptera)

2.	Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.

3.	Richness of the Nearctic treehopper fauna (Hemiptera: Aetalionidae and Membracidae) Deitz L.L., Wallace M.S. 2012. Zootaxa 3423: 1–26.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 26 October, 2006 - 3:48pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 5 August, 2017 - 5:37pm

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