Oncometopia nigricans Walker 1851b: 783

Black-winged sharpshooter

Published in: Walker, F.A. (1851b) List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. London: Edward Newman, Vol. 3, 637–907.

Description & Identification

Large, robust species. male 10.8—11.6 mm., female 11.8—12.2 mm. (Nielson, 1968)General color deep tan to black. Crown and pronotum deep tan to black with dark reticulations; elytra bluish to black, veins brown to black. (Nielson, 1968)Pygofer in lateral aspect about as long as wide, caudal margin broadly convex, ventral margin with short spine arising from base and extending posteriorly; aedeagus in lateral aspect with prominent, curved elongate spine arising ventrally; aedeagal shaft recurved, narrow basally with sides parallel and somewhat truncate apically, pair of processes arising laterally from each side of ventral base in dorsal aspect and single process arising from middle of aedeagal shaft in ventral aspect; style in dorsal aspect simple, bluntly truncate distally; female seventh sternum in ventral aspect with caudal margin trilobed. (Nielson, 1968)This species is similar to orbona and can be separated by the long slender process on the ventral surface of the posterior part of the aedeagal shaft.(Nielson 1968)

Biology & Ecology

Unknown. (Nielson, 1968)

Classification

Order

Hemiptera

Suborder

Auchenorrhyncha

Family

Cicadellidae

Subfamily

Cicadellinae

Tribe

Proconiini

Genus

Oncometopia

Species

nigricans

Authorship

Walker 1851b: 783

Synonymy

Proconia undata nigricans Walker, 1851

Common Names (full list)

Black-winged sharpshooter
Source: Catalogue of Life

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Worldwide Distribution

This species occurs in Florida and South America. (Nielson, 1968)

North America

South America

Distribution point data provided by GBIF.

Vector Status

Economic Crops

Citrus

Grape

Other

According to Pollard (personal communication), this species is a vector of phony peach disease virus in Georgia, where two positive cases of transmission were obtained. No details of the transmission tests are yet available, but this information may appear prior to publication of this bulletin.(Nielson 1968)The importance of this vector is not yet known.(Nielson 1968)