Species Putoniessa mackei Evans, 1966

Museums

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• Putoniessa mackei 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 QM T.6558 ♂ (coll.: x.1910, E. Sutton), Stanthorpe, Queensland
  Comment: There is a discrepancy in the collection date of the holotype given in the original description, "10/10", and that found on the label data by Stevens (1994), "26-10-30".

 

Introduction

This species, described from Stanthorpe in SE Queensland, has also been identified from the Warra LTER site in southern Tasmania. Stevens (1994) stated that isolated specimens from widespread localities with strong similarities to P. mackei could not be referred to the species with certainty since there may be a complex of closely related species centred on this species. The Tasmanian record should probably be regarded as part of this complex although it is also possible that P. mackei is a widespread species in southeastern Australia represented by relatively few specimens in collections.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, Tas: New England Tablelands (NET), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head black with yellowish brown and brown markings; anterior apex of head, yellowish brown. Pronotum black with six narrow pale brown longitudinal stripes, of which the two central ones meet anteriorly and posteriorly continue onto the scutellum. Tegmen black, with a few irregular bold white markings and a series of small oval hyaline areas in the costal region and apically, and with yellow spots alongside some of the veins. Length ♂ 7 mm (Evans 1966).

Dark, often boldly marked species. Transcephalic stripe present, though indistinct. Aedeagus with two apical arms, posterior arm with a single ventrally directed spine mounted apically or subapically. Second valvulae c. 13 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

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 [1050–1052]

 

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)