Species Ozoliarus pitta Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus pitta Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Ozoliarus pitta 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 [65].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE016965 ♂ (coll: 23.vi.1987, C. Wilson), Anthony’s Lagoon, Barkly Tablelands, Northern Territory.

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. The species is distributed in the Murray Darling valley from southern Queensland to South Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body mid, dark brown or black, carinae paler; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with or without brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid to dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.3–6.4 mm, ♀ 6.0–6.8 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.4–2.0 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching or not reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.4–3.7 times longer than wide; costa with 10–20 tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a large u-shaped, bifurcated spine right lateral; a curved, slender spine arising from the same base as u-shaped spine; a rounded spine with a flattened, serrated tip ventral about midlength; a straight, slender spine right lateral; a curved spine with a tip shaped like a bird head ventral; a moderately curved spine left lateral; and a bifurcated spine at apex of aedeagus. Flagellum membranous with a triangular ridge and a sclerotised blade. (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 [66]

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