Genus Oteana Hoch, 2006

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• Oteana Hoch, H. 2006. New Cixiidae from Eastern Polynesia: Oteana gen.nov. and Manurevana gen.nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). Zootaxa 1209: 1-47 [3].

  Type species:

   Oliarus euphranor Fennah, 1958 (Mt. Aorai, Tahiti) by original designation.

Introduction

Oteana was created by Hoch (2006) to accommodate a number of species from the Society and Cook Islands in the Pacific. These species were formerly placed in the hold-all genus Oliarus Stål. A number of species of Australian Pentastirini were subsequently placed in Oteana by Löcker et.al. (2006), including transferring Oliarus lubra Kirkaldy, one of the most common and widespread Australian species of Cixiidae.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Daly Basin (DAB), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Diagnosis

Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.2–7.7 mm, ♀ 7.2–10.1 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.4–2.0 times longer than wide; lateral carinae slightly to moderately elevated; subapical carina forking from lateral margin at 1/3–1/2 (in Ot. sponsa 1/3–1) total length of vertex; median carina 1/2–3/4 as long as median length of vertex. Position of maximum width of frons more or less around centre of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae of frons convex (evenly rounded or rectilinear apically) or s-shaped. Anteclypeus with well-developed median carina. Thorax: Forewing with fork ScRA+RP distad of fork CuA1+CuA2; r-m crossvein basad of fork MA+MP; RP apically bifid; MA apically trifid; MP apically bifid; fork of Pcu+A1 distinctly basad of (sometimes more or less around Ot. lubra and Ot. sponsa) centre of clavus. Hind leg: tibia with 3 lateral spines; 6 large apical teeth; 1st tarsomere with 7 apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 5 apical teeth and no platellae. Male genitalia: Genital styles without long, sclerotised, spinelike, dorsal process. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. and Larivière, M.-C. (2006). Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Pentastirini found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/cixiid/pentastirini/penta00.htm

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [91]

General References

Hoch, H. 2006. New Cixiidae from Eastern Polynesia: Oteana gen.nov. and Manurevana gen.nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). Zootaxa 1209: 1-47 [3]

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [91]

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