Species Oliarus talunia Kirkaldy, 1906

Oliarus talunia Kirkaldy, syntype female

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Oliarus talunia Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [398].

  Type data:

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

Introduction

A species based on a single female from Cairns, Queensland. In the apparent absence of males, Löcker et al. (2006) regarded the species 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 including legs pale yellow except for light brown mesonotum; forewing hyaline white with brown marks along crossveins and apices of apical veins; veins white, tubercles mid to dark brown (contrasting with veins). Morphology. Body length: ♀ 5.3 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.9 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 [45]

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