Genus Ozoliarus Löcker, 2006

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Regional Maps

• Ozoliarus 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 [47].

  Type species:

   Oliarus laertes Kirkaldy, 1906 by original designation.

Introduction

This is the most species-rich genus of Australian Cixiidae with 29 species recognised by Löcker et.al. (2006) who also indicated (loc. cit. p. 103) that the name may be a junior synonym of Prosops Buckton, 1893. The genus has been recorded in all states of Australia except Tasmania and also on Lord Howe Island, in Fiji and in the Solomon Islands (Rennell Island).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Diagnosis

Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.1–7.7 mm, ♀ 5.0–9.3 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.2–2.3 times longer than wide; lateral carinae slightly strongly elevated; subapical carina forking from lateral margin at 1/3–2/3 of total length vertex; median carina 1/4–3/4 as long as median length of vertex. Position of maximum width of frons more or less around or distinctly distad centre of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae of frons convex (evenly rounded or rectilinear apically) or s-shaped. Anteclypeus with well-developed, evanescent or without median carina.Thorax: Forewing with fork ScRA+RP distad of fork CuA1+CuA2; r-m crossvein basad of fork MA+MP; RP apically bifid; MA apically trifid (rarely bifid); MP apically monofid, bifid or trifid; fork of Pcu+A1 distinctly basad or more or less around centre clavus. Hind leg: tibia with 3–4 lateral spines; 6 large apical teeth; 1st tarsomere with (rarely 8) apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 7 (rarely 6) apical teeth and platellae. Male genitalia: Genital styles without long, sclerotised, spinelike, dorsal process. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. and Larivière, M.-C. (2006). Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Pentastirini found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/cixiid/pentastirini/penta00.htm

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [47]

General References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [47]

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