Species Oliarus cuberlii Löcker, 2006

Oliarus cuberlii Löcker, holotype male

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

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

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM 16615 ♂ (coll: 17.iii.1961, J.L. & M. Gressitt, 5 m, Eucalyptus), Maningrida, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.

Introduction

This species was grouped by Löcker et.al. (2006) with O. acanthopygophoris and O. lawlerorum as the "acanthopygophoris group" through the following shared features: 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. It is based on a single male specimen from Maningrida, Northern Territory and the name honours Lucio Cuberli, a friend of the author.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body mid brown, carinae and pronotum paler; legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown apically darker, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma light to mid brown; abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.6 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 2.5 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.5 times longer than wide; costa with 3–5 tubercles; 8 apical cells. Male genitalia: pygophore dorsolaterally on each side without long, outwardly curving, spinelike process; genital styles with large spinelike process directed dorsad. Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a long, moderately curved spine arising ventrally at apex; a short, strongly curved, bifurcated spine dorsally; and a medium sized, sclerotised flap ventrally. Flagellum slightly sclerotised, unarmed, very small. (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 [25]

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