Draeculacephala californica Davison & Frazier 1949

Blanco-Rodríguez, E. & Pinedo-Escatel, J. A., 2022, Review of the New World genus Draeculacephala Ball (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae Cicadellinae) from Mexico, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 5174 (4), pp. 381-394 : 392

Draeculacephala californica Davison & Frazier 1949

Draeculacephala californica Davidson & Frazier, 1949: 12

Figures 22-23

Records in Mexico. SONORA (Valle del Yaqui; Bahía San Carlos )

Distribution. See Table 1 .

Hosts. Cynodon sp.

Common name. False grass sharpshooter

Material examined. 1♂ and 2♀: ( TAMU) 1♂, Mexico, Sonora, Valle del Yaqui , 27° 22' 0" N, 110° 9' 59" W, 168m, 05-May-1955, Pacheco M. Col.; ( TAMU) 2♀, México, Sonora, Valle del Yaqui , 27° 56' 41" N, 111° 3' 31" W, 6m, 17-Aug-1964, Pacheco M. Colls .

Remarks. This species superficially is very similar to D. minerva and was noted as sympatric by Dietrich (1994), during our study diverse online platforms found reports on this species to be distributed near center and eastern Mexico. However, due to strong similarity with latter species and non-reliable observations because of the lack of voucher specimens, we do not include such data pending further confirmation by dissections of the materials.

Figures

FIGURE 20-25. Dorsal and lateral habitus of Draeculacephala spp. in Mexico; 20-21. D. mollipes; 22-23. D. californica; 24- 25. D. minerva.