Species Oteana salicoides Löcker, 2006

Oteana salicoides Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Oteana salicoides Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [95].

  Type data:

   Holotype MAGD 4750 ♂ (coll: 8.xii.1982, C. Wilson, light trap), Snake Bay, Melville Island, Northern Territory.

Introduction

This species is based on a number of males located in the far north of Australia, including Melville Island, Northern Territory, Torres Strait islands and the wet tropics of NE Queensland.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Head light brown, carinae paler, anteclypeus darker; pronotum light brown; mesonotum mid brown (sometimes paler between lateral and sublateral carinae); legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, apically darker, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma light to mid brown; abdominal sternites light brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.1–7.0 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.6–2.0 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled, rectangular or obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent or well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.0–3.3 times longer than wide; costa with 0–1 tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a spine forking into a short branch and a long branch; a spine forking into two long branches; a very short spine; and a slender spine. Flagellum sclerotised, unarmed. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 92)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [95-96]

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