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<i>Ozoliarus rotundistylus</i> Löcker, adult

Ozoliarus rotundistylus Löcker, adult

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Species Ozoliarus rotundistylus Löcker, 2006


Compiler and date details

9 September 2010 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

This species was grouped by Löcker et.al. (2006) with Ozoliarus cuspidistylus 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 only known from two males collected at Taroom in southeastern Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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 white mark; legs light to dark brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins and sometimes on apex of wing, veins dark brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology . Body length: ♂ 5.4–5.9 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.6–1.9 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.2–3.6 times longer than wide; costa with or without 1 tubercle; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: as in Oz. cuspidistylus, except for spine of phallotheca more slender and parallel; and spine of flagellum missing. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

 

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 48)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
03-Sep-2010 ADDED