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Yes, you do need to report income made by yourself and spouse according to Publication 555. On page 8, it explains that if you treat your spouse as a non-resident alien, you can , treat your community income as Spouses living apart all year. However, you don't have to meet the four conditions that are listed there.  Here is how you will report the income. 

You would report the income each of you made. You do not need to allocate it according to the community property rules. Page 9, illustrates a perfect example how this is done. Thus in the screens you included above, you would not make any adjustments because each income is treated separately. Otherwise, if you weren't given this special provision, you would need to allocate everything bit of income, withholding, and deductions 50/50, which may take a bit of work.

If your wife does not have an ITIN or Social Security Number, you will need to mail the return in accordance with the instructions that will be included in the return. 

1. Prepare your return in TurboTax by choosing the option as Married Filing Separately. For the Social Security number, If she doesn't have a Social Security Number or ITIN, leave that blank.
2. Complete your return.
3. When you get to the Let’s get ready to e-file screen, select File by Mail, unless your wife has a SSN or ITIN. If so, you may efile.
4. TurboTax will give you an error regarding the missing Social Security number or ITIN for your spouse. Proceed to print with the error, but write Nonresident Alien or NRA in the space for your spouse’s Social Security number before mailing in your return.
5. Mail the return to the address on the instruction sheet that prints with the return.
6. You may include an explanation statement stating that your wife is a non-resident alien that lived abroad during the year thus you did not make the community property allocations and treated her as a Spouse living apart from you all year and then quote the text that is on page 8 of Publication 555.