Species Oliarus busoensis Van Stalle, 1989

Oliarus busoensis Van Stalle, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Oliarus busoensis Van Stalle, J. 1989. The Pentastirini of New Guinea, a review and descriptions of five new species (Homoptera: Cixiidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 59: 173-182 [176].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll: ix–xi.1979, J. Martin), Buso, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

Introduction

This species is known from three quite separate localities in New Guinea and from a single male specimen from SE 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. Head and pronotum light brown; mesonotum mid brown, paler between lateral and sublateral carinae; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 9.1 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.9 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent carinae. Forewing 3.0 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 10 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a very long, strongly curved spine; and two short, almost straight, upwards (caudad) pointing spines. Flagellum partly sclerotised, unarmed. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

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 [35]

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