Species Ozoliarus semicircularis Löcker, 2006

Ozoliarus semicircularis Löcker, holotype male

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Ozoliarus semicircularis 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 ASCU ASCTHE029567 ♂ (coll: 24.ii.1997, L.B. O’Brien), 7 km W of Petford, Queensland.

Introduction

This species was grouped with O. dingkana (Distant), O. quadratistylus 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 is based on a single male specimen from inland North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body black, carinae paler, frons lateral with a light brown mark; legs mid to dark brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins dark brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.1 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 2.1 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular (rarely acutely angled). Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.2x longer than wide; costa with 4–6 tubercles; 7–8 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a large trifurcated spine ventral; and a ventral ridge with two humps. Flagellum membranous without 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 [72]

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