Species Ozoliarus quadratistylus Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus quadratistylus Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Ozoliarus quadratistylus 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 [71].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: 20.x.1970, D.H. Colless), 8 miles ENE of Millstream, Western Australia.

Introduction

This species was grouped with O. dingkana (Distant), O. semicircularis Löcker and O. triangularis 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. The species has been recorded from southern inland Queensland and from the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Mulga Lands (ML), 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 a light brown mark; legs mid to dark brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins mid to dark brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.2–5.8 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.3–1.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely 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 3.4–3.6 times longer than wide; costa with 2–10 tubercles; 7–9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a large, bi- or trifurcated spine ventral; and a ventral ridge with two or three 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 [71]

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