Species Oteana tattendi Löcker, 2006

Oliarus tattendi Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oteana tattendi Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [96].

  Type data:

   Holotype MAGD I002152 ♂ (coll: 20.i.2000, G. Bellis, sweeping Mangifera indica; originally in NTDPI), Woolner Homestead, Northern Territory [12°22'48"S 131°27'01"E].

Introduction

This species is only known from a narrow coastal strip in the far north of the Northern Territory. Specimens have been swept from Mangifera indica L. (Anacardiaceae), Hymenachne acutigluma Gilliland (Poaceae), Melaleuca (Myrtaceae) and Mimosa pigra L. (Fabaceae).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Head light to mid brown, carinae paler; pronotum light brown; mesonotum mid to dark 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 light brown; abdominal sternites light brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.3–7.6 mm, ♀ 8.3–8.8 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.5–1.9 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. 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 3.0–3.3 times longer than wide; costa with 0–1 tubercles; 9 (rarely 8) apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a long spine; a long spine forking into a strong branch and a slender branch; a short spine; and a slender spine. Flagellum membranous, unarmed. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 92)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [98]

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