Species Putoniessa sordida Evans, 1966

Museums

Regional Maps

• Putoniessa sordida Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [121].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (damaged) (coll.: i.1941), Capel, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This dark coloured species is known from several localities in the southwestern corner of Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head, except for the maxillary plates and genae which are yellowish brown, black evenly mottled with brown. Crown and thorax brown, finely and evenly mottled with black. Tegmen whitish hyaline, finely and evenly mottled with brown. Length ♂ 9 mm (Evans 1966).

Dark species without conspicuous markings or tegminal fascia. Aedeagus with shaft undivided, apical area with four pairs of spines. Pygophore lobe well developed, pygophore process acute, sharply dorsally directed (Stevens 1994).

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

 

ID Keys

Stevens 1994: 1046–1047

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [121]

Stevens, M.M. 1994. Taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography of the Australian genus Putoniessa Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1037-1115 [1073–1075]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)