Species Ozoliarus cuspidistylus Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus cuspidistylus Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Ozoliarus cuspidistylus 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 [57].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE029347 ♂ (coll: 28.xii.1965, M.I. Nikitin, sweeping in orchard), Cabramatta, near Sydney, New South Wales.

Introduction

This species was grouped by Löcker et.al. (2006) with Ozoliarus rotundistylus Löcker as the "cuspidistylus group" based on the following shared features: phallotheca with two simple spines, a spine arising right laterally below midlength and a large, flattened spine arising ventrally near apex of phallotheca; forewing with fork of Pcu+A1 more or less central within clavus; 9 apical cells. The species is known from widely scattered locations across Australia from North Queensland to SW Western Australia.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Jarrah Forest (JF), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body dark brown to black, carinae and clypeus paler, frons lateral with a white mark; legs 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 dark brown.. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.3–6.1 mm, ♀ 7.1–7.4 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.5–2.1 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent or well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching or surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed median and sublateral carinae and evanescent or well-developed lateral carinae. Forewing 3.2–3.6 times longer than wide; costa with 10–20 tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca right lateral with a thick spine pointing outwards; a large, flattened spine ventral. Flagellum partly membranous with a long, very slender, sclerotised spine arising left lateral near base of flagellum; and a slightly sclerotised spine at apex of flagellum. (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 [58]

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