Species Ozoliarus maru Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus maru Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Ozoliarus maru 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 [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll: 21.ii.1927. The data label states "Extreme NW Victoria" which is a descriptive term rather than the name of a locality), NW Victoria.

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. The species is based on a small series of specimens from the extreme NW corner of Victoria and a single male from Loxton, on the Murray River in South Australia.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic: Riverina (RIV)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body black, carinae paler, frons lateral with an indistinct light brown mark; legs light to dark brown; forewing hyaline colourless without brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.1 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.8 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.7 times longer than wide; costa with 10 tubercles; 8 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a bifurcated spine right lateral; a bifurcated spine dorsal; a short, flattened, serrated spine; a long, flattened spine ventral; a slender spine right lateral; a strongly curved spine left lateral; and an almost straight 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 [65]

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