Family Dictyopharidae

Subfamily Orgeriinae Fieber, 1872

Tribe Orgeriini Fieber, 1872

Genus Orgamara Ball, 1909

Type species (in original combination): Orgamara acuta Ball, 1909.

Synonyms: None.

Distribution: Southeastern US and adjacent Mexico.

Recognized species

There are 3 species currently in the genus:

Orgamara acuta Ball, 1909 - USA: CA; Mexico (Baja California)
Orgamara argentia Ball, 1937 - USA: AZ
Orgamara reducta Ball, 1909 - USA: CA, NM; Mexico (Baja California)

Economic Importance:

Limited.

Known host plants: 

Orgamara argentia - Yucca brevifolia Engelm. (Joshua tree, Agavaceae)

Hosts from Wilson et al. (1994); plant names from USDA PLANTS or Tropicos.

Recognition:

Brachypterous, leaving several terga visible from above, tegulae hidden (all Orgeriinae); callosity present behind eye; head more than 2x length of eyes; cephalic process, as seen from the side, truncate at the extremity, five angled, gradually tapering.

Keys to genus of US Orgeriinae in Doering & Darby 1943 and Doering (1955).

Orgamara argentia (All photos by Rick Donovall or Kimberley Shropshire, Department of Entomology, University of Delaware)

Orgamara is here on Bugguide.

Collecting

Collected infrequently, found by inspecting hosts.

Molecular resources: As of this writing, data for several genes are available for Orgamara argentia on Genbank, but no data are available for this genus on Barcode of life.

Selected references:

Ball, E. D. 1909. Some remarkable new leaf-hoppers of the family Fulgoridae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 22: 197-204.

Ball, E. D. 1937. Some new Fulgoridae from Western United States. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 32: 171-183.

Ball, E. D. and Hartzell, A. 1922. A review of the desert leafhoppers of the Orgerini (Rhynchota Fulgoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 15: 137-152.

Doering, K. C. 1955. Some taxonomic and morphological studies of two genera of North American Dictyopharidae. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37(7): 195-221.

Doering, K. C. and H. H. Darby. 1943. A contribution to the taxonomy of the genus Orgerius in America, north of Mexico (Fulgoridae, Homoptera). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 16(2-3): 64-98.

Emeljanov, A. F. 1983. Dictyopharidae from the Cretaceous deposits on the Taymyr Peninsula (Insecta, Homoptera). Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 3: 79-85 [In Russian; translated in: Paleontological Journal 17(3): 77-82].

Metcalf, Z. P. 1946. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV Fulgoroidea. Part 8 Dictyopharidae. Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts.

Wilson, S. W., C. Mitter, R. F. Denno, and M. R. Wilson. 1994. Evolutionary patterns of host plant use by delphacid planthoppers and their relatives. In: R. F. Denno and T. J. Perfect, (eds.). Planthoppers: Their Ecology and Management. Chapman and Hall, New York. Pp. 7-45 & Appendix.