Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

<I>Putoniessa woodwardi</I> Stevens, holotype male.

Putoniessa woodwardi Stevens, holotype male.

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Species Putoniessa woodwardi Stevens, 1994


Compiler and date details

11 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

This reasonably dark species is known from Pearl Beach which is near Gosford and about 35km north of Sydney and not "near Sydney" as given on the data label. The species was "named in honour of the late Dr T.E. Woodward, in recognition of his work on Australian Hemiptera."

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Robust species, transcephalic stripe absent. Aedeagal shaft upturned with a pair of short spines mounted preapically on anterior margin and a pair of long, narrow, dorsally directed spines extending from near posterioventral corner. Apical region of pygophore process spatulate in posterior view (Stevens 1994).

Stevens (1994) also provided a comprehensive description and figures of the species.

 

ID Keys

Stevens 1994: 1046–1047

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011 20-Sep-2011 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)