The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae)
Author
Löcker, Birgit
Author
Fletcher, Murray J.
Author
Larivière, Marie-Claude
Author
Gurr, Geoff M.
text
Zootaxa
2006
2006-08-14
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Ozoliarus taroomensis
Löcker
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 22A–D
,
43J–P
)
Type material
Holotype
,
♂
,
AUSTRALIA
,
Qld
:
6 km
N
Taroom
,
25.36S
149.46E
,
200 m
,
11.ix.1992
(
G. Daniels
) (
QM
QMT123835
, originally
UQIC
)
,
Paratypes
, AUSTRALIA,
Qld
:
1 ♂
, same data as holotype (
UQIC
)
,
2 ♂
, same data as holotype,
1.xi.1991
(
UQIC
)
,
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
,
Expedition Ra NP
, ‘
Amphitheatre’
scrub,
25.13S
148.59E
,
520 m
,
intercept
,
25.ix.–17.xii.1997
(
Cook
,
Monteith
) (
QM
)
.
Etymology
Named after Taroom, the
type
locality.
Colour
Body dark brown to black, carinae, clypeus and pronotum paler, frons lateral with an 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:
♂
6.4–6.9 mm
,
♀
7.9 mm
.
Head: Vertex (total length) 2.0–2.1 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with welldeveloped median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae.
FIGURE 22.
Ozoliarus taroomensis
: A habitus; B, C, D head.
Ozoliarus umbella
: E habitus; F, G, H head.
Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with welldeveloped carinae. Forewing 3.1 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells.
Male genitalia: Anal tube as in
Figs 43J–L
; pygophore and genital styles as in
Figs 43O–P
. Aedeagus (
Figs 43M–N
): Phallotheca with a very long, moderately curved spine (a) left lateral; a long, strongly curved, sshaped spine (b) ventral; a more robust, apically widening spine (c) right lateral; a large, sheetlike, bifurcated process ventral about midlength; and a very small, triangular, sheetlike process dorsolateral. Flagellum membranous with one or two sclerotised spines apically; and a sclerotised, fingershaped process near base.