Classification > Superfamily
Membracoidea
> Family
Cicadellidae
> Subfamily
Megophthalminae
> Tribe
Agalliini
> Subtribe
Agalliina
> Genus
Agallia
Agallia albidula Uhler, 1895
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
Insects with no economic damage registered
- Argentina
- Chaco
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Formosa
- Jujuy
- Misiones
- Río Negro
- Salta
- Santa Fe
- Santiago del Estero
- Tucumán
Other distribution
Bolivia and Brazil (Oman, 1938) and Paraguay (Varela et al., 2007).
- Agallia basiflava Van Duzee, 1907
This species is a vector of the "Brazilian tomato curly top virus (BrCTV)" (Costa & Carvalho, 1960). Furthemore, a strain of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni’ (subgroup 16SrIII-AD) was found in Agallia albidula and citrus plants with symptoms similar to HLB in Brazil (Barbosa et al. 2025).
Alfalfa, tomato, sweet potato, tobacco, chard, sunflower, wheat, beans, cotton, Citrus sp., oats, Cynodon sp. and weeds (Varela et al., 2007).
- OMAN, P. W. 1938 (a). A contribution to the classification of South American agallian leafhoppers. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 25, 351-460.
- COSTA, A. S., & CARVALHO, A. M. B. 1960. Intumescência das nervuras da beldroega, uma moléstia de vírus. Bragantia, 19, XIX-XX.
- MURUAGA DE L´ARGENTIER & AGOSTINI DE MANERO. 1995. Contribución al estudio de las especies de Cicadellidae (Homoptera) presentes en cultivo de poroto en Jujuy (Argentina). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 54(1-4), 77-82.
- VARELA, G. REMES LENICOV, A.M.M., DUGHETTI, A.C. & BAFFONI, P.A. 2007. Clave para la identificación específica de los Agalinos asociados a cultivos hortícolas en el valle bonaerense del Río Colorado (Hemiptera-Cicadellidae). Libro de resümenes 30° Congreso Argentino de Horticultura, ler. Simp. Intl. Cultivos Protegidos Η SV, 045, 396.
- BARBOSA, J. C., FERREIRA, J., COELHO, L. B. N., ECKSTEIN, B., KREYCI, P. F., FILHO, A. B., & BEDENDO, I. P. 2025. The leafhopper Agallia albidula is a vector of a phytoplasma associated with “Huanglongbing”-like symptoms in citrus in Brazil. Tropical Plant Pathology, 50 (1), 12.
