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Genus Ceratagallia

Hopper - Ceratagallia small leafhopper - Ceratagallia Hopper - Ceratagallia sanguinolenta - male Ceratagallia Unknown Leafhopper - Ceratagallia CNC1197608 - Ceratagallia humilis - male CNC1197541 - Ceratagallia clino - male CNC1197549 - Ceratagallia humilis - male
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 Megophthalminae
Tribe Agalliini
Subtribe Agalliina
Genus Ceratagallia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Aceratagallia (valid subgenus)
Explanation of Names
Ceratagallia Kirkaldy 1907
Numbers
2 subgenera, with ~55 spp. in our area(1) and ~80 spp. total(2)

No Taxon subgenus Aceratagallia
Ceratagallia abrupta
Ceratagallia agricola (American Clover Leafhopper)
Ceratagallia atrata
Ceratagallia arida
Ceratagallia calcaris
Ceratagallia californica
Ceratagallia cerea
Ceratagallia cinerea
Ceratagallia clino
Ceratagallia coma
Ceratagallia compacta
Ceratagallia cristula
Ceratagallia curta
Ceratagallia curvata
Ceratagallia harrisi
Ceratagalia humilis (Canadian Clover Leafhopper)
subspecies Ceratagallia humilis alvarana
subspecies Ceratagallia humilis humilis
subspecies Ceratagallia humilis interior
Ceratagallia gallus
Ceratagallia helveola
Ceratagallia inconspicua
Ceratagallia longula
Ceratagallia lophia
Ceratagallia modesta
Ceratagallia nana
Ceratagallia nanella
subspecies Ceratagallia nanella nanella
subspecies Ceratagallia nanella zacki
Ceratagallia nitidula
Ceratagallia obscura
Ceratagallia okanagana
Ceratagallia omani
Ceratagallia pallida
Ceratagallia poudris
Ceratagallia robusta
subspecies Ceratagallia robusta whitcombi
Ceratagallia rossi
Ceratagallia sanguinolenta (Clover Leafhopper)
Ceratagallia semiarida
Ceratagallia siccifolia
subspecies - Ceratagallia siccifolia alaskana
subspecies - Ceratagallia siccifolia compressa
Ceratagallia texana
Ceratagallia triunata
Ceratagallia truncata
Ceratagallia uhleri
Ceratagallia viator
Ceratagallia vulgaris

No Taxon subgenus Ceratagallia
Ceratagallia aplopappi
Ceratagallia arroya
Ceratagallia artemisia
Ceratagallia bigeloviae
Ceratagallia califa
Ceratagallia canona
Ceratagallia delta
Ceratagallia dondia
Ceratagallia gillettei
Ceratagallia grisea
Ceratagallia lobata
Ceratagallia loca
Ceratagallia loma
Ceratagallia longipes
Ceratagallia ludora
Ceratagallia lupini
Ceratagallia neodona
Ceratagallia neovata
Ceratagallia nubila
Ceratagallia ovata
Ceratagallia pera
Ceratagallia pudica
Ceratagallia socala
Ceratagallia sordida
Ceratagallia tergata
Ceratagallia tristis
Ceratagallia vastatis
Ceratagallia vipera
Identification
Head more rounded than in Agallia (in which the head curves very sharply on the upper edge, and the rest of the face is nearly flat). (K.G.A. Hamilton)
Range
North America(2)
Print References
Hamilton, K.G.A. (1998) The species of the North American leafhoppers Ceratagallia Kirkaldy and Aceratagallia Kirkaldy (Rhynchota : Homoptera : Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 130(4): 427–490. (2)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.The species of the North American leafhoppers Ceratagallia Kirkaldy and Aceratagallia Kirkaldy(Rhynchota:Homoptera:Cicadellidae)
Hamilton K.G.A. 1998. The Canadian Entomologist 130: 427-490.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 21 January, 2005 - 10:16pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 16 November, 2023 - 8:42pm

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