Species Putoniessa minima Evans, 1966
Compiler and date details
8 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Putoniessa minima 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 AM ♂ (coll.: xii.1926, A. Musgrave), National Park, Macpherson Range, Queensland.
Introduction
This species was described from SW Queensland and this was the distribution given by Stevens (1994) but there are a number of specimens from the north coast of New South Wales that are in the J.W. Evans collection as P. minima.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Face of head, other than the frontoclypeus, pale yellowish brown mottled with brown; frontoclypeus brown, sparsely mottled with brown. Crown of head, thorax and tegmen, greyish with irregular longitudinal coffee brown markings. Length ♂ 6.8 mm (Evans 1966).
Small pale species lacking a distinct transcephalic stripe. Aedeagus with a single, slender, apical arm bearing three small preapical spines, accessory apodeme absent. Pygophore process hooked, apex acute (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 [1060–1061]
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) |