Species Putoniessa nigrella Evans, 1966

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• Putoniessa nigrella Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [123].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K39948 ♂ (coll.: C. Rosegger), Bargo Forest, nr Batlow, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This very dark species is primarily distributed in southeastern Australia from the Sydney basin in New South Wales to SE Tasmania. It is known from several localities in Victoria. The record from Queensland is based on two specimens in the J.W. Evans collection labelled "Burleigh" with "Q" or "QLD". It is possible that this locality record is incorrect. The locality in Queensland is Burleigh Heads while there is a locality in Victoria named Burleigh which is in the centre of the distribution of the species. It is possible that the writer of the label incorrectly assumed the locality was in Queensland. However, since the label includes reference to Queensland, the record of the species in that state is included here.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Record from Queensland may be in doubt.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Closely resembling P. nigra in coloration but differing in its smaller size and in characteristics furnished by the male genitalia. Length ♂ 7.6 mm (Evans 1966).

Very dark species generally without strong markings or conspicuous tegminal fascia. Aedeagus with a single apical arm bearing five spines, ventrolaterally directed spines broadly attached to shaft. Pygophore process irregularly expanded. Second valvulae 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

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [123]

Stevens, M.M. 1994. Taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography of the Australian genus Putoniessa Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1037-1115 [1058–1060]

 

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)