Species Ozoliarus poculum Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus poculum Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ozoliarus poculum 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 [87].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE016869 ♂ (coll: 23.–24.ii.1981, B.J. Loudon), 20 km W of White Cliffs, New South Wales.

Introduction

This species is common and widespread in the drier areas of central Australia and in dry coastal areas of Western Australia. It has been collected from Eucalyptus largiflorens F. Muell. (Myrtaceae) in New South Wales, Eremophila mitchellii Benth. (Myoporaceae) and Pluchea baccharoides (F.Muell.) Benth. (Asteraceae) in Queensland and from Acacia (Fabaceae) in Western Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

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 white mark; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with indistinct or without brown marks along crossveins, veins light to mid brown apically darker, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.2–7.3 mm, ♀ 5.7–7.0 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.4–1.8 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent median carina. Rostrum reaching or not reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent or well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.3–3.7 times longer than wide; costa with 0–6 tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with two short, rounded spines left lateral; a flattened, serrated spine ventral; a long, slender spine ventral; a large, flattened, grossly serrated spine shaped like cup in ventral view; a long, flattened spine dorsal; a very long, flattened, bifurcated spine right lateral; and a very small spine dorsal below midlength. Flagellum sclerotised with one or two 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 [90]

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