Species Ozoliarus asaica (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Ozoliarus asaica (Kirkaldy), syntype female

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oliarus asaica Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [399].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀ (coll: i.1905), Sydney, New South Wales.

Generic Combinations

• Ozoliarus asaica (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [90]

Introduction

This species was regarded as a nomen dubium by Löcker et.al. (2006) as no males are known.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body mid brown, carinae paler; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, tubercles concolorous, pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♀ 6.9 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.4 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9–10 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 [90-91]

General References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [90]

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