Species Oliarus cochleatus Löcker, 2006

Oliarus cochleatus Löcker, holotype male.

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oliarus cochleatus Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [36].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123831 ♂ (coll: 6.xii.1986, G. Daniels, M.A. Schneider, m.v. lamp (originally in UQIC)), Gordon Creek, Claudie River district, Queensland [12°42’S 143°17’E].

Introduction

This species is based on a single male specimen from the Claudie River district of Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex mid brown; face light brown, anteclypeus darker; pronotum light brown; mesonotum dark brown, carinae paler; legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light to mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark brown; abdominal sternites mid to dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.6 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 2.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.1 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with two very long, strongly (spirally) curved spines; and a short, almost straight spine. Flagellum slightly sclerotised, one large spine on apex. (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 [36]

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