Species Oliarus trispiralis Löcker, 2006

Oliarus trispiralis Löcker, holotype male

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Oliarus trispiralis Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [38].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: x.1983, L. Hill), Jedda, Christmas Island.

Introduction

Based on a single male specimen, this is the only species of Cixiidae so far recorded from Christmas Island.

Distribution

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex mid to dark brown; face mid brown, carinae and portions of clypeus paler; 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 to mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid to dark brown; abdominal sternites light to mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.6 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 3.2 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely 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 3.0 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with three long strongly (spirally) curved spines. 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 [38]

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