Species Ozoliarus cynosurus Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus cynosurus Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ozoliarus cynosurus Löcker, B. in Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [61].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: 6.x.1929), Eidsvold, Queensland.

Introduction

This is one of seven species grouped together by Löcker et.al. (2006) as the "pitta group" based on the following shared features: the arrangement of spines on the aedeagus, i.e., phallotheca ventrally with a spine with a serrated tip (not present in Oz. golgolensis) and right laterally with an upwards curved (mostly u-shaped) spine. O. cynosurus is known from the brigalow belt of southern Queensland. One specimen has been collected from Atalaya hemiglauca (F. Muell.) F. Muell. (Sapindaceae).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body dark brown to black, carinae paler, frons lateral with a light brown mark; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with indistinct brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid to dark brown; abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.2–6.2 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.6–2.3 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent or well-developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.3–3.7 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a large u-shaped, sheetlike spine right lateral; a short, slender spine arising from same base; a flattened, sickleshaped, serrated spine ventrally; a rounded spine; and a bifurcated, flattened spine arising dorsally from the same base; a moderately curved spine left lateral; and a bifurcated spine left lateral at apex. Flagellum membranous with sclerotised blades. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 48)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [61–63]

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