Species Oliarus globosus Löcker, 2006

Oliarus globosus Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oliarus globosus Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [29].

  Type data:

   Holotype MAGD I002151 ♂ (coll: 17.xi.1972, T. Weir, A. Allwood; originally from NTDPI)), Nourlangie Creek, 8 km E of Mt Cahill, Northern Territory [12°52'S 132°47'E].

Introduction

This species, which is found in and around Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, is grouped with O. acuminatus Muir as the "acuminatus group" based on the following shared features: fork of Pcu+A1 distinctly basad of centre of clavus; aedeagus configuration (i.e. with a long spine arising right lateral near apex, passing the phallotheca ventrally, crossing over to the dorsal side apically).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Daly Basin (DAB), Pine Creek (PCK)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body dark brown to black, carinae and pronotum paler; legs light brown; forewing hyaline white with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, apically darker, tubercles dark brown (contrasting with veins), pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites light to dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.5–4.8 mm, } 4.7–4.8 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.7–2.1 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum not reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.2–3.5 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 8 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a long spine curved as in O. acuminatus; a moderately curved spine with very large globular base; and two dorsal spines as in O. acuminatus. Flagellum membranous, 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 [29]

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