Species Putoniessa dorsalis (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bythoscopus dorsalis Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [867].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 44-4 ♂ (Presented by the Haslar Hospital), New Holland.

  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 [1068].
• Bythoscopus repletus Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [267].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (Mr Stevens' collection), Melbourne, Victoria
  Comment: holotype by monotypy.
• Putoniessa maculata Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [65].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: J.W. Evans), Seven Mile Beach, Tasmania.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [467] (synonymy of B. repletus)
• Stevens, M.M. 1994. Taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography of the Australian genus Putoniessa Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1037-1115 [1068] (synonymy of P. maculata)

 

Generic Combinations

• Putoniessa dorsalis (Walker, 1851). —
  Stevens, M.M. 1994. Taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography of the Australian genus Putoniessa Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1037-1115 [1068]

 

Introduction

This large brown species is distributed across the southern parts of eastern Australia. The species has had a rather chequered taxonomic history, as discussed by Stevens (1994: 1070–1071).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus sp. [MYRTACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Fuscus, flavo notatus; pectoris segmenta picea, fiavo marginata; abdomen nigrum, fulvo fasciatum, subtus apice fulvum; pedes nigri; pedes postici flavi, nigro vittati; alae anticae alba guttatae; alae posticae cinereae.
Dark brown, varied with pale yellow marks: head extremely short, as broad as the head, slightly rounded along the fore border, rather more convex behind; crown transversely striated; its length in the middle much less than that on each side; face punctured, almost flat; chest very finely striated across; pectoral segments pitchy, with yellow borders; abdomen black; hind borders of the segments tawny; underside tawny towards the tip; legs black; hind-legs yellow, striped with black; fore-wings thickly covered with whitish dots, which form a short slightly oblique stripe in the disk near the base; hind-wings gray. Length of the body 3½–4 lines; of the wings 7–8 lines (Walker 1851).

Large species, transcephalic stripe absent. Aedeagus with shaft undivided, sinuate, apex acute, bearing a single dorsoanteriorly directed preapical spine and a smaller proximal tooth. Apex of pygophore process hammer-shaped. Pregenital sternite with lateral lobes reaching, or extending further than, notched median lobe (Stevens 1994).

Stevens (1994) also provided a comprehensive redescription 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 [1068–1071]

Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [867]

 

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