Species Putoniessa watsoni Stevens, 1994

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• Putoniessa watsoni Stevens, M.M. 1994. Taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography of the Australian genus Putoniessa Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1037-1115 [1086].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ♂ (coll.: 31.iii.1982, at mercury vapour light, G.R. Brown & A.E. Westcott), Never Never Picnic area, Dorrigo National Park, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This beautifully marked species is only known from the holotype. It was "named after the late Dr J.A.L. Watson, in recognition of his dedication to the study of Australian Odonata and Isoptera."

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Transcephalic stripe absent. Apical arm of aedeagus undivided, apex subacute/rounded, bearing a pair of long thin spines extending from a common base. Pygophore process club-shaped (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 [1085, 1086–1087]

 

History of changes

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