Species Putoniessa sordida Evans, 1966
Compiler and date details
10 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Putoniessa sordida 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 ANIC ♂ (damaged) (coll.: i.1941), Capel, Western Australia.
Introduction
This dark coloured species is known from several localities in the southwestern corner of Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Face of head, except for the maxillary plates and genae which are yellowish brown, black evenly mottled with brown. Crown and thorax brown, finely and evenly mottled with black. Tegmen whitish hyaline, finely and evenly mottled with brown. Length ♂ 9 mm (Evans 1966).
Dark species without conspicuous markings or tegminal fascia. Aedeagus with shaft undivided, apical area with four pairs of spines. Pygophore lobe well developed, pygophore process acute, sharply dorsally directed (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 [1073–1075]
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) |