Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Austroagallia mera
Leafhopper
Humid forest zone; March-May.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Suborder
Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily
Membracoidea
Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Austroagallia
Species
mera
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Austroagallia arrhenonigra. Holotype deposited in the CAS.
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Santa Cruz, Santiago.
- Linsley, E.G. (1977) Insects of the Galápagos (Supplement). Occassional Papers of the Califoria Academy of Sciences 125: 1-50.
- 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.
- Viraktamath, C.A. (1972) A new species of Austroagallia Evans from the Galapagos Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci. 101: 1-4.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Austroagallia mera", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5581. Accessed 1 November 2026.