Species Putoniessa dignissima Kirkaldy, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Putoniessa dignissima Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [50].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM 4507 ♂ (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Mittagong, New South Wales
  Comment: Stevens (1994) correctly assumed that the red "M" handwritten on the printed "Sydney, NSW" data label indicated that the specimen was from Mittagong and not Sydney. These labelling peculiarities of Kirkaldy were first explained by Medler (1987).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Stevens, M.M. 1994. Taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography of the Australian genus Putoniessa Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1037-1115 [1048].

  Type locality references:

  Medler, J.T. 1987. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XI. Taxonomic notes on Kirkaldy Types in the Bishop Museum, with illustrations of the genitalia of male lectotypes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 27: 115-125 [115].

 

Introduction

This pale brown species, the type species of the genus, is found in eastern New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Stevens (1994) recorded Eucalyptus haemastoma Sm. (Myrtaceae) as a host.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus haemostoma Smith, 1797 [MYRTACEAE] Broad-leaved Scribbly Gum ((Stevens 1994))).

 

Diagnosis

Pale greyish cinereous mottled with fuscous. Face pale testaceous, frons and clypeus mostly dark fuscous, with pale specks. Tegmina hyaline, tinged with cinereous, mottled with light and dark fuscous; veins brownish, crossveins mostly whitish. Femora blackish, at least basally and dorsally, fore and middle tibiae annulated with dark fuscous at least dorsally. Sternites dark fuscous, apically bordered with testaceous, narrowly. Length 8½–9½ mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

Pale species lacking a distinct transcephalic stripe. Aedeagus with two apical arms, posterior arm bearing two upturned, apically mounted spines. Second valvulae c. 8 x longer than maximum blade height, pregenital sternite produced and slightly indented medially, lateral sections of posterior margin not produced (Stevens 1994).

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

 

ID Keys

Stevens 1994: 1046–1047

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [50–51]

Stevens, M.M. 1994. Taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography of the Australian genus Putoniessa Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1037-1115 [1048–1050]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED