Species Ozoliarus taroomensis Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus taroomensis Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Ozoliarus taroomensis 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 [74].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123835 ♂ (coll: 11.ix.1992, G. Daniels, 200 m, originally in UQIC,), 6 km N of Taroom, Queensland [25°36'S 149°46'E].

Introduction

This species was grouped by Löcker et al. (2006) with O. umbella Löcker as the "umbella group" on the basis of the following shared features: arrangement of spines on aedeagus, i.e., aedeagus with three spines, a long spine left lateral, a long, s-shaped spine ventral, and a shorter spine right lateral, all spines curved; genital styles apically rounded; forewing with fork of Pcu+A1 distinctly basad of centre of clavus; 9 apical cells; costa without tubercles. A species based on a small number of specimens from the brigalow belt in Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body dark brown to black, carinae, clypeus and pronotum paler, frons lateral with an light brown mark; legs mid to dark brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins dark brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.4–6.9 mm, ♀ 7.9 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 2.0–2.1 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.1 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: genital styles apically rounded. Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a very long, moderately curved spine left lateral; a long, strongly curved, s-shaped spine ventral; a more robust, apically widening spine right lateral; a large, sheetlike, bifurcated process ventral about midlength; and a very small, triangular, sheetlike process dorsolateral. Flagellum membranous with one or two sclerotised spines apically; and a sclerotised, finger-shaped process near base. (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 [74–76]

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