Species Putoniessa taradalensis Evans, 1966

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• Putoniessa taradalensis 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 NMV 2673 ♂ (coll.: 12.xi.1939, F.E. Wilson), Taradale, Victoria.

 

Introduction

This nicely striped species is distributed along the Murray Darling Basin from Dubbo in central New South Wales to Taradale in central Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head anterior* to the antennal ledges, pale yellowish, mottled laterally with pale brown; medially black; posteriorly* to the antennal ledges a transverse black or dark brown band followed by a yellowish white band on which the ocelli are situated. Pronotum whitish laterally, remainder greyish brown with irregular longitudinal black and brown markings. Scutellum laterally dark brown, medially mottled light and dark brown with three whitish longitudinal stripes in alignment with three pale markings on the crown. Tegmen longitudinally streaked with black and grey; veins brown. Length ♂ 9 mm (Evans 1966).

*Note that Evans regarded the mouth as the most anterior point of the head, even though it is situated ventrally well away from the apex of the head where the face meets the vertex. His use of "anterior" and "posterior" with reference to facial features therefore appears the opposite to what one might expect.

Transcephalic stripe distinct. Aedeagal shaft broad, undivided, with five spines, those arising from posterior margin all ventrally directed. Lateral apical arm of paramere broad. Second valvulae narrow, serrate region divided into coarsely serrate (distal) and finely serrate (proximal) areas (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 [1087–1089]

 

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)