Onega (genus)

Short description: Genus of true bugs

Onega

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Hemiptera
Suborder:  | Auchenorrhyncha
Family:  | Cicadellidae
Subfamily:  | Cicadellinae
Tribe:  | Cicadellini
Genus:  | Onega
Distant, 1908

Onega is a genus of leafhoppers in the family Cicadellidae.

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Distribution
* 3 Species[2]
* 4 References

## Description

All nine described species of the Genus Onega are comparably large sharpshooters with a size between 12.4 and 16.8 Millimeters. The Pronotum of Onega is typically wider than the head and the Scutellum is swollen.[1]

## Distribution

Onega occurs in the andean rainforests of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia.[1] Old records of Onega from the craibbean islands are now beliefed to have been mislabelled.[1]

## Species[2]

* Onega avella Distant, 1908
* Onega bracteata Young, 1977
* Onega fassli Young, 1977
* Onega freytagi Takiya & Cavichioli, 2004
* Onega krameri Takiya & Cavichioli, 2004
* Onega orphne Takiya & Cavichioli, 2004
* Onega sanguinicollis (Latreille, 1807)
* Onega stella Distant, 1908
* Onega stipata (Walker, 1851)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Takiya, Daniela Maeda; Cavichioli, Rodney Ramiro (2004). "A Review Of The Neotropical Sharpshooter Genus Onega Distant, 1908 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini)". Zootaxa 718: 1-19. doi:10.5281/zenodo.158154.
2. ↑ [1] Genus Onega Distant, 1908

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