Species Oliarus acanthopygophoris Löcker, 2006

Oliarus acanthopygophoris Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Oliarus acanthopygophoris Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [23].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE005978 ♂ (coll: 7.xii.1983, A. Postle), Kununurra, Western Australia.

Introduction

This species was grouped by Löcker et.al. (2006) with O. cuberlii Löcker and O. lawlerorum Löcker as the "acanthopygophoris group" which shared the following characteristics: Forewing with 8 apical cells; genital styles with a large (rarely small) spinelike process directed dorsad; aedeagus with one ventral and one dorsal spine and a ventral sclerotised flap; flagellum very small and indistinct. O. acanthopygophoris is based on three males from the northern Kimberley region in Western Australia.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Northern Kimberley (NK)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

This species can be distinguished from all other Australian Pentastirini by the presence of a long dorsolateral, outwardly curving, spinelike process on each side of the pygophore.

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 22)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [23-25]

General References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [23]

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