Species Ozoliarus laertes (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Ozoliarus laertes (Kirkaldy), adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oliarus laertes Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [398].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM 1188 ♂ (coll: i.1905, Koebele), Mittagong, New South Wales.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [77].

Generic Combinations

• Ozoliarus laertes (Kirkaldy, 1906).

Introduction

A species found in the south eastern region of Australia and also recorded from Fiji and Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands. It has been collected in Sydney on the stems of Banksia robur Cav. (Proteaceae).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body dark brown to black, carinae paler, clypeus sometimes mid brown; legs 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 dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.3–6.4 mm, ♀ 6.8–7.9 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.7–2.1 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent or well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching (rarely surpassing) hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Mesonotum with evanescent or well-developed median and lateral carinae and well-developed sublateral carinae. Forewing 3.1–3.4 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with three long spines pointing downwards (cephalad); and a shorter spine curved upwards (caudad). Flagellum membranous, sometimes with membranous or slightly sclerotised spines. (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 [77–79]

History of changes