Species Ozoliarus serratus Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus serratus Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ozoliarus serratus 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 [66].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 34365 ♂ (coll: 29.ix.1988, B.P. Hanich et al., at uv light), Cadjeput Rockhole, Western Australia [21°31'55"S 119°08'57"E].

Introduction

This species is one of seven grouped together by Löcker et.al. (2006) as the "pitta group" based on the following shared features: 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 based on two male specimens from the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Pilbara (PIL)

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 an indistinct light brown mark; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless without brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.7–6.5 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.9–2.2 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent or well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.6–3.7 times longer than wide; costa with 1–3 tubercles; 8 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with three flattened, upwards (caudad) curved spines; all three arising from same base right lateral; two of these spines serrated; an upwards (caudad) curved spine dorsal; a slender, slightly curved spine; and a bifurcated spine left lateral at apex. Flagellum membranous with sclerotised blades and a small sclerotised 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 [66–68]

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