Species Ozoliarus latifundus Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus latifundus Löcker, holotype male

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ozoliarus latifundus 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 [84].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123833 ♂ (coll: 2.xi.1991, G. Daniels, 320 m, originally in UQIC), Isla Gorge National Park, Queensland [25°11'S 149°58'E].

Introduction

A species based on a single male specimen from Isla Gorge NP in the brigalow belt of Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body dark brown to black, carinae paler; legs mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless without brown marks along crossveins, veins dark brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.0 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 2.0 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.2 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a very wide base; a long, moderately curved spine left lateral; a strongly curved spine right lateral; and a bifurcated spine dorsal. Flagellum partly sclerotised with one 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 [84]

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