Species Oliarus lilinoe Kirkaldy, 1907

Oliarus lilinoe Kirkaldy, syntype female

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oliarus lilinoe Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [108].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀ (coll: vii.1904, Perkins), Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

This is one of several species described by Kirkaldy (1906, 1907) which were based on female types and which are identifiable only to genus. For this reason, Löcker et.al. (2006) regarded it as a nomen dubium.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body mid brown, carinae and area between lateral and sublateral carinae on mesonotum paler, frons lateral with a pale mark; legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless, with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, apically darker, tubercles mid brown (contrasting with veins), pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♀ 5.5 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 2.0 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum not reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.4 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 8 apical cells. Male genitalia: Unknown (Löcker et.al. 2006)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [43-44]

General References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [42]

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