Species Putoniessa woodwardi Stevens, 1994

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• Putoniessa woodwardi Stevens, M.M. 1994. Taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography of the Australian genus Putoniessa Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1037-1115 [1102].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ♂ (coll.: 13-15.ix.1974, M.J. Fletcher), Pearl Beach, nr Sydney, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This reasonably dark species is known from Pearl Beach which is near Gosford and about 35km north of Sydney and not "near Sydney" as given on the data label. The species was "named in honour of the late Dr T.E. Woodward, in recognition of his work on Australian Hemiptera."

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Robust species, transcephalic stripe absent. Aedeagal shaft upturned with a pair of short spines mounted preapically on anterior margin and a pair of long, narrow, dorsally directed spines extending from near posterioventral corner. Apical region of pygophore process spatulate in posterior view (Stevens 1994).

Stevens (1994) also provided a comprehensive description and figures of the species.

 

ID Keys

Stevens 1994: 1046–1047

 

Diagnosis References

Stevens, M.M. 1994. Taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography of the Australian genus Putoniessa Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1037-1115 [1102–1103]

 

History of changes

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