Genus

Dagama Distant, 1910

Descendants and synonyms

Dagama Distant, 1910e: 243.
type species by original designation Dagama novata Distant, 1910
Paranoplus Linnavuori, 1961a: 473.
type species by original designation Paranoplus maculatus Linnavuori, 1961

Dagama Distant, 1910 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 42.
Dagama Distant, 1910 (classified as Bonaspeiini Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 31.

Distant, W.L. (1910e) Order Rhynchota. Suborder Homoptera. In Insecta transvaaliensia; a contribution to a knowledge of the entomology of South Africa. F. Edwards. London. Vol. 10, pp. 229–252, pls. XXII-XXIII.
Linnavuori, R.E. (1961a) Hemiptera (Homoptera): Cicadellidae. In B. Hanström (Ed.). South African Animal Life. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist & Wiksell, Göteborg – Stockholm – Uppsala. Vol. 8, pp. 452–486. [557 pp.]

Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 45, 1–211. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.45
Zahniser, J.N., Dietrich, C.H., Cao, Y.-H., Dmitriev, D.A. & Pinedo-Escatel, J.A. (2026) New tribal placements, reinstatements and synonymies in the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 1035, 1–51. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1035.3171

type species by original designation of Dagama Distant, 1910

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

in honor of Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, c. 1460s–1524), a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea

No descendants observations found