Species Putoniessa fusca Stevens, 1994
Compiler and date details
7 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Putoniessa fusca Stevens, M.M. 1994. Taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography of the Australian genus Putoniessa Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1037-1115 [1093].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 16.xii.1974, K.T. Richards), Fitzgerald Riv. Reserve, Western Australia.
Introduction
This species is only known from arid areas of southeastern Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Transcephalic stripe absent. Aedeagal shaft undivided, bearing a dorsal tooth near base and three ventrally directed preapical teeth. Pygophore process sickle-shaped (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 [1093–1094]
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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20-Sep-2011 | 20-Sep-2011 | MOVED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |