Species Ozoliarus bullockorum Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus bullockorum Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Ozoliarus bullockorum Löcker, B. in Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [emendation].
• Ozoliarus bullocki Löcker, B. in Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [emended to bullockorum under ICZN Article 31.1.2].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU HE025955 ♂ (coll: M.S. & B.J. Moulds, 8.i.1986), 26 miles E of Timber Creek, Northern Territory.

Introduction

This is one of four species grouped together as the "bullocki group" by Löcker et.al. (2006) based on the following shared features: arrangement of spines on aedeagus, i.e. aedeagus ventrally below midlength with a hookshaped or straight spine directed ventrad; genital styles irregularly lobed (like leaf margin of certain oak species); forewing with dark tubercles contrasting with brighter coloured veins. O. bullockorum is known from the northern part of the Northern Territory. It was named in honour of the author’s friends Ros and David Bullock.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Daly Basin (DAB), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body mid to dark brown, carinae and pronotum paler; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins and on apex of wing, veins light brown, tubercles dark (contrasting with veins), pterostigma mid to dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.3–6.0 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.5–1.9 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent or well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.5–4.0 times longer than wide; costa with 10–19 tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Genital styles irregularly lobed. Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a large hookshaped spine directed ventrad arising ventrally below midlength; a short, flattened spine ventral at midlength; and two medium sized spines right lateral; and a very short spine dorsal. Flagellum partly sclerotised, with a very long, basally strongly curved (rarely bifurcated) spine ventral at base of flagellum; a shorter, rounded spine; and a large, bifurcated, flattened spine. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 48)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [52]

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