Species Ozoliarus smithi Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus smithi Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ozoliarus smithi 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 [68].

  Type data:

   Holotype CAS 18197 ♂ (coll: 2.xi.1962, E.S. Ross & D.Q. Cavagnaro, 10 m), near Brookdale, Queensland.

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 based on a series of specimens from Brookdale in the Gulf Country of northern Queensland. It is named after Tony Smith, a friend of the author.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Gulf Plains (GUP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body mid to dark brown, carinae and pronotum paler, frons lateral with or without a light brown mark; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless without brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.9–5.7 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.5–1.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent or well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.4–3.7 times longer than wide; costa with 5–9 tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca as in Oz. pitta except for the following: u-shaped spine shorter, three spines arising from same base, curved ventral spine absent and bifurcated spine at apex of aedeagus with one branch longer; flagellum as in Oz. pitta. (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 [68]

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