Species Putoniessa nigra (Walker, 1862)

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• Gypona nigra Walker, F. 1862. Characters of undescribed species of Homoptera in the collection of F.P. Pascoe, F.L.S. Journal of Entomology A 1: 303-319 [319].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ (Miss Pascoe, 69–41), Moreton Bay, Queensland.

  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 [1071].

 

Generic Combinations

• Putoniessa nigra (Walker, 1862). —
  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 [64]

 

Introduction

This large dark species is known along the eastern seaboard of mainland Australia from the wet tropics of North Queensland to the Sydney basin of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

Diagnosis

Faem. Nigra, subpunctata, subtus ex parte sordide testacea; caput thorace paullo latius, vertice arcuato brevissimo, fronte facieque planis; femora basi sordide testacea; alae anticae costam versus testaceo punctatae.
Female. Black, minutely punctured, partly dingy testaceous beneath. Head a little broader than the thorax; vertex arched, extremely short, not longer in the middle than on each side; front and face flat. Mouth pale testaceous, extending to the middle coxae. Femora dingy testaceous towards the base. Fore wings with minute testaceous points, which are mostly along the costa. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 9 lines (Walker 1862).

Large, very dark species without strong markings or conspicuous tegminal fascia. Aedeagus with a single apical arm bearing 5 spines, ventrolaterally directed spines only narrowly attached to shaft. Pygophore process hooked, generally broadest preapically. Second valvulae narrow, with only a few poorly defined serrations, serrate area not divided into proximal and distal sections (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 [1071–1073]

Walker, F. 1862. Characters of undescribed species of Homoptera in the collection of F.P. Pascoe, F.L.S. Journal of Entomology A 1: 303-319 [319]

 

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