Species Ozoliarus bumarangoides Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus bumarangoides Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Ozoliarus bumarangoides 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 [82].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123832 ♂ (coll: 1.xi.1958, I.C. Yeo, originally in UQIC), Woodenbong, New South Wales.

Introduction

A species based on two specimens from the far NE corner of New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body dark brown, carinae paler, frons lateral with an indistinct pale mark; legs mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless without brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid to dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.5–6.7 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.9–2.0 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.0–3.1 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a very long, strongly curved spine; a shorter, almost straight spine; and a large, flattened, boomerang-shaped spine. Flagellum membranous, with two short spines at apex. (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 [82]

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