Species Ozoliarus cynosurus Löcker, 2006
Compiler and date details
9 September 2010 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Ozoliarus cynosurus 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 [61].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: 6.x.1929), Eidsvold, Queensland.
Introduction
This is one of seven species grouped together by Löcker et.al. (2006) as the "pitta group" based on the following shared features: the arrangement of spines on the aedeagus, i.e., phallotheca ventrally with a spine with a serrated tip (not present in Oz. golgolensis) and right laterally with an upwards curved (mostly u-shaped) spine. O. cynosurus is known from the brigalow belt of southern Queensland. One specimen has been collected from Atalaya hemiglauca (F. Muell.) F. Muell. (Sapindaceae).
Distribution
States
Queensland
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: phloem feeder.
Extra Ecological Information
Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.
Diagnosis
Colour. Body dark brown to black, carinae paler, frons lateral with a light brown mark; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with indistinct brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid to dark brown; abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.2–6.2 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.6–2.3 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent or well-developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.3–3.7 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a large u-shaped, sheetlike spine right lateral; a short, slender spine arising from same base; a flattened, sickleshaped, serrated spine ventrally; a rounded spine; and a bifurcated, flattened spine arising dorsally from the same base; a moderately curved spine left lateral; and a bifurcated spine left lateral at apex. Flagellum membranous with sclerotised blades. (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 [61–63]
History of changes
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