Species Ozoliarus clipealis (Jacobi, 1928)

Ozoliarus clypealis (Jacobi), adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oliarus clipealis Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [33].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NRS ♂ (coll: Mjöberg), Kimberley district, Western Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

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

Generic Combinations

• Ozoliarus clipealis (Jacobi, 1928). —
  Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [52]

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. The species is recorded from the Kimberley region of Western Australia and neighbouring parts of the Northern Territory.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body dark brown to black, carinae, clypeus and pronotum paler, frons lateral with a white mark; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, tubercles dark brown (contrasting with veins), pterostigma mid to dark brown; abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.1–6.4 mm, ♀ 7.1–7.7 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.2–1.6 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent or well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.5–3.8 times longer than wide; costa with 8–16 tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Genital styles irregularly lobed. Aedeagus: Phallotheca with an almost straight, slender, not hookshaped spine directed ventrad arising ventrally below midlength; a short spine arising ventrally below midlength; a medium sized spine right lateral; a medium sized spine; and a very short spine dorsal. Flagellum partly sclerotised, with two large, flattened spines. (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 [52-54]

General References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [51]

History of changes