Species Ozoliarus triangularis Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus triangularis Löcker, holotype male

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ozoliarus triangularis 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 [72].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I 21724 ♂ (coll: F.R. Zietz), Murray River, South Australia.

Introduction

This species was grouped with O. dingkana (Distant), O. quadratistylus Löcker and O. semicircularis Löcker as the "triangularis group" on the basis of the following shared features: ventral ridge of phallotheca with two or three humps; presence of a large bi- or trifurcate spine ventral on phallotheca; left lobe of pygophore larger than right lobe; genital styles spoon-shaped in ventral view; fork of Pcu+A1 distinctly basad of the centre of clavus. It is based on a single male specimenfrom South Australia.

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body dark brown, carinae paler; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless without brown marks along crossveins, veins light to mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma light to mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.7 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.5 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.0 times longer than wide; costa with 11–13 tubercles; 8–9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a large, bifurcated spine ventral; a short, moderately curved spine dorsal; and a ventral ridge with two humps. Flagellum membranous with a very long, sclerotised spine arising from base of flagellum; and a long, less sclerotised spine at apex of flagellum. (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 [73–74]

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