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Mottled Black Leafhopper - Putoniessa sp.

Family Cicadellidae

This page contains pictures and information about the Mottled Black Leafhoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
 
Body length 10mm 
 
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Pictures were taken in Daisy Hills near Buhot Creek on Oct 2009. It was hiding on a Ironbark gumtree trunk.
 
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Reference:
1. Species Putoniessa nigra (Walker, 1862) - Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources Study.
2. Cladistics and Biogeography of the Australian Genus Putoniessa Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae) - Stevens, M.M. (1994), Taxonomy,  Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1037-1115. 

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