Species Putoniessa turneri Evans, 1969
Compiler and date details
11 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Putoniessa turneri Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [749].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 8.iii.1936, R.E. Turner), Yanchep, Western Australia.Type locality references:
Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).
Introduction
This species is only known from the SW corner of Western Australia, from Perth to Margaret River. The original description included a female paratype from Gatton, Queensland, but Stevens (1994) considered this specimen not to be conspecific with the holotype.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
General coloration pale yellowish brown mottled with pale and dark brown. Face of head pale yellowish brown mottled with pale and dark brown, frontoclypeus with transverse black muscle impressions, or almost entirely black. Crown of head, and thorax, pale yellowish brown mottled with dark brown. Tegmen hyaline whitish yellow and brown with a partial pattern of pale oval markings, of which a line of three such markings lie along the hind margin of the tegmen; veins brown with white markings. Length ♂ 7 mm; greatest width across eyes 3 mm (Evans 1969).
Transcephalic stripe absent. Aedeagal shaft with two apical arms, proximal arm with two spines, distal arm with three spines. Pygophore process notched at apex (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. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [749]
Stevens, M.M. 1994. Taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography of the Australian genus Putoniessa Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1037-1115 [1090–1091]
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) |