Species Oliarus phelia Kirkaldy, 1906

Oliarus phelia Kirkaldy, female syntype

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oliarus phelia Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [400].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM ♀ (coll: vii.1904), Nelson (=Gordonvale), Queensland; BPBM ♀ (coll: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland; BPBM ♀ (coll: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.

Introduction

This species is based on three female syntypes collected in the wet tropics of North Queensland. Löcker et al. (2006) provided a discussion based on the unusual spination of the hind legs which suggest that O. phelia and O. kampaspe Kirkaldy may be synonyms, particularly as two of the syntypes of O. phelia and the syntype of O. kampaspe were collected in the same collecting event. However, without male genitalia to confirm their identities, both species were regarded as being nomina dubia.

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. Head light brown or mid brown with light brown carinae; pronotum light brown; mesonotum mid brown, paler between lateral and sublateral carinae; legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, apically darker, tubercles indistinct, concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♀ 6.2–6.3 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.5–1.7 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 evanescent or well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.1 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 [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 [45]

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