Species Putoniessa variegata Stevens, 1994

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• Putoniessa variegata Stevens, M.M. 1994. Taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography of the Australian genus Putoniessa Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1037-1115 [1076].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 1945, E.F. Riek), Brisbane, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This highly variable species is known from SE Queensland to the Clyde River on the south coast of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus saligna Smith [MYRTACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Highly variable in coloration, although never with a distinct transcephalic stripe. Aedeagal shaft undivided, sharply bent, apex acute, gonopore preapical. Basal area of shaft with a single vertically directed filamentous spine. Pygophore process sinuate, apex downtumed. Second valvulae relatively stout, serrate region divided into coarsely serrate (distal) and finely serrate (proximal) areas (Stevens 1994).

Stevens (1994) also provided a comprehensive description 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 [1076–1078]

 

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