Galapagos Species Database
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Agallia pecki
Leafhopper
Freytag (2003) indicated that this is a recent introduction and that it probably replaced previous Agallia species, such as A. planus and A. striolaris.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Suborder
Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily
Membracoidea
Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Agallia
Species
pecki
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 1989
Mode of introduction: Accidental
Introduction Pathway: Contaminant
Subpathway: Contaminant on plants (inc. seeds and plant associated material)
Introduced status: Naturalized
Invasive status: No data
- Freytag, P.H. (2003) Corrections and additions to the Genus Agallia (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Agalliinae) of the Americas. Entomological News 114 (4): 181-186.
- 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
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"Galapagos Species Database, Agallia pecki", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=13038. Accessed 4 November 2026.