Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Coelidiana krameri
Leafhopper
Transition and humid forest zones; February-June; malaise and flight traps. Unknown from mainland Ecuador but probably introduced from there.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Suborder
Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily
Membracoidea
Family
Cicadellidae
Section
Teruliini
Genus
Coelidiana
Species
krameri
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 1990
Mode of introduction: Accidental
Introduction Pathway: Contaminant
Subpathway: Contaminant on plants (inc. seeds and plant associated material)
Introduced status: Naturalized
Invasive status: No data
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Floreana, Isabela, Santa Cruz.
- Freytag, P.H. (2000) A new Species of Coelidiana (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) from the Galapagos Islands. Entomological News Vol 3(5): 325-327.
- Liebhold, A. M. Turner, R. M., Bartlett, C. R., Bertelsmeier, C., Blake, R. E., Brockerhoff, E. G., Causton, C. E., Matsunaga, J. N., McKamey, S. H., Nahrung, H. F., Owen, C. L., Pureswaran, D. S., Roques, A., Schneider, S. A., Sanborn, A. F., & Yamanaka, T. (2024) Why so many Hemiptera invasions? Diversity and Distributions, 30, e13911. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13911
- Peck, S.B. (2001) Smaller Orders of Insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador: Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 278 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Coelidiana krameri", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10993. Accessed 4 November 2026.