Genus Miclucha Emeljanov, 2001

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• Miclucha Emeljanov, A.F. 2001. The genus Oliarus s. str. and related genera from the Oriental Region (Homoptera: Cixiidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 10(1): 71-72 [72].

  Type species:

   Oliarus laratensis Muir, 1924 by original designation.

Introduction

Three species are recognised in Australia, including the type species, originally described from Larat Island in eastern Indonesia, and there is an additional species only found in New Guinea.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

The genus can be distinguished by the features used in the key below. The narrow vertex differentiates species from most other Australian Pentastirini. Emeljanov (2001) defined the genus by the genital styles bearing a long, slender, sclerotised dorsal process. A similar process also occurs in the acanthopygophoris group of Oliarus, although slightly less sclerotised and shorter, and in Cordoliarus, where it is mounted in a different position. (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 [17]

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