Species Putoniessa minima Evans, 1966

Museums

Regional Maps

• Putoniessa minima 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 AM ♂ (coll.: xii.1926, A. Musgrave), National Park, Macpherson Range, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species was described from SW Queensland and this was the distribution given by Stevens (1994) but there are a number of specimens from the north coast of New South Wales that are in the J.W. Evans collection as P. minima.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head, other than the frontoclypeus, pale yellowish brown mottled with brown; frontoclypeus brown, sparsely mottled with brown. Crown of head, thorax and tegmen, greyish with irregular longitudinal coffee brown markings. Length ♂ 6.8 mm (Evans 1966).

Small pale species lacking a distinct transcephalic stripe. Aedeagus with a single, slender, apical arm bearing three small preapical spines, accessory apodeme absent. Pygophore process hooked, apex acute (Stevens 1994).

Stevens (1994) also provided a comprehensive redescription 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 [1060–1061]

 

History of changes

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