Species Ozoliarus umbella Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus umbella Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Ozoliarus umbella 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 [76].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123829 ♂ (coll: xii.1923, H. Hacker), National Park, Queensland.

Introduction

This species was grouped by Löcker et al. (2006) with O. taroomensis Löcker as the "umbella group" on the basis of the following shared features: arrangement of spines on aedeagus, i.e., aedeagus with three spines, a long spine left lateral, a long, s-shaped spine ventral, and a shorter spine right lateral, all spines curved; genital styles apically rounded; forewing with fork of Pcu+A1 distinctly basad of centre of clavus; 9 apical cells; costa without tubercles. The species has been recorded along the east coast between SE Queensland and South West Rocks in New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body dark brown, carinae and clypeus paler, frons lateral with a white mark; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with or without brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark brown; abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.6–7.3 mm, ♀ 7.1–8.2 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 2.0–2.3 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching or surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed median carina and evanescent or well-developed sublateral and lateral carinae. Forewing 2.9–3.2 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: genital styles apically rounded. Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a slightly curved, very long spine left lateral; a long, strongly curved, s-shaped spine ventral; a slender, apically narrowing spine right lateral; a small rounded ventral process below midlength; and a very large, umbrella-shaped, coarsely serrated, sheetlike process dorsolateral. Flagellum membranous with slightly sclerotised spines. (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 [76–77]

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