Species Oliarus doddi Muir, 1931

Oliarus doddi Muir, holotype female

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oliarus doddi Muir, F. 1931. Descriptions and records of Fulgoroidea from Australia and the South Pacific Islands. No 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(2): 63-83 [64].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (coll: 24.x.1903), Townsville, Queensland
  Comment: holotype by monotypy.

Introduction

This name was treated as a nomen dubium by Löcker et.al. (2006) since it is based on a single adult female. The species has some transverse markings on the wings, unlike most other species of the genus.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex dark brown, carinae and lateral portions light brown; frons light brown; clypeus dark brown, carinae light brown; pronotum pale yellow; mesonotum light brown, with dark brown marks; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins and three brown transverse bands across wing, veins and tubercles concolorous with cells, pterostigma light to dark brown; abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♀ 6.6 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.6 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.1 times longer than wide; costa with 0–1 tubercle; 8 apical cells. Male genitalia: Unknown. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [40]

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