Species Ozoliarus pelecanus Löcker, 2006
Compiler and date details
10 September 2010 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Ozoliarus pelecanus 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 [87].
Type data:
Holotype WAM 34374 ♂ (coll: 7.viii.1987, R.P. McMillan, on Acacia), Tambrey, Western Australia.
Introduction
This species is based on a single male specimen collected from Acacia (Fabaceae) from Tambrey Homestead, Western Australia. Its legs are missing so the placement of the species in Ozoliarus was tentatively based on the structures of the head.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
IBRA
WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: phloem feeder.
Extra Ecological Information
Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.
Diagnosis
Colour. Body black, carinae paler; legs dark brown; forewing hyaline colourless with indistinct brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.7 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 2.1 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.7 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 8 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a very short, slightly curved spine dorsal at apex; two long, strongly curved spines ventral; a spine shaped like head and neck of a pelican; a shorter, strongly curved spine right lateral; and a rounded sclerotised process dorsal. Flagellum sclerotised with 3 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 [87]
History of changes
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