Species Ozoliarus golgolensis Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus golgolensis Löcker, holotype male

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Ozoliarus golgolensis 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 [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype VAIC 030543 ♂ (coll: 12.x.1999, on sticky trap in vineyard), Gol Gol, New South Wales.

Introduction

This is one of seven species grouped together by Löcker et.al. (2006) as the "pitta group" based on the following shared feature: phallotheca right laterally with an upwards curved (mostly u-shaped) spine. The species is based on a single male specimen collected at Gol Gol in the Murray River valley.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Riverina (RIV)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body black, carinae paler, frons lateral with a light brown mark; legs light to dark brown; forewing hyaline colourless with indistinct brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid to dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.9 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.4 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with evanescent median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum rectangular. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.5 times longer than wide; costa with 0–3 tubercles; 7 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with an u-shaped spine with a wide, sheetlike tip right lateral; a bifurcated spine arising from the same base; a slightly curved spine dorsal; and a bifurcated spine right lateral at apex. Flagellum membranous with sclerotised blades and a very small 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 [63]

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