Species Ozoliarus antennoides Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus antennoides Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Ozoliarus antennoides 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 [79].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE029225 ♂ (coll: xii.1917), Moree, New South Wales.

Introduction

One of several species of the genus from the brigalow belt of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body mid to dark brown, carinae paler, frons lateral with an indistinct pale mark; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless without brown marks along crossveins, veins light to mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma light to mid brown; abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.5–5.7 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.3–1.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching or not reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.3–3.5 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a long, moderately curved spine left lateral; a long, moderately curved spine ventral; a long, almost straight spine pointing upwards (caudal); a very short spine dorsal at apex of aedeagus; and a triangular ventral ridge (fold) pointing upwards (caudad) below midlength. Flagellum slightly sclerotised with one long and one very short spine. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [80]

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