The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae)
Author
Löcker, Birgit
Author
Fletcher, Murray J.
Author
Larivière, Marie-Claude
Author
Gurr, Geoff M.
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Zootaxa
2006
2006-08-14
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Oteana lubra
(Kirkaldy)
,
comb. nov.
(
Figs 28A–D
,
47M–S
)
Oliarus lubra
Kirkaldy, 1906: 400
.
Oliarus lubra
var.
vitiensis
Kirkaldy, 1907: 109
syn. nov.
Type material
Lectotype
, here designated,
♂
(examined),
AUSTRALIA
,
Qld
:
Bundaberg
,
ix.–xii.1904
(Koebele) (
BPBM
)
,
Paralectotypes
(examined),
AUSTRALIA
,
Qld
:
2 ♀
same data as holotype (Koebele) (
BPBM
)
;
1 ♀
Bundaberg,
xi.1904
(
BPBM
)
;
1 ♀
Brisbane,
xi.1904
(
BPBM
)
.
Type of
O. lubra
var.
vitiensis
,
1 ♂
(examined),
FIJI
:
Navua
,
ii.1906
(
BPBM
, Nr 1194).
Remarks
A
lectotype
is designated herein in order to clarify the identity of the species.
Other material examined
AUSTRALIA
:
NSW (
57 ♂
,
55 ♀
)
, NT (
24 ♂
,
11 ♀
),
Qld
(
76 ♂
,
59 ♀
)
, SA (
24 ♂
,
5 ♀
), VIC (
2 ♂
).
Distribution
Australia
(
Queensland
),
Fiji
,
New Caledonia
.
Remarks
Fennah recorded this species from
Fiji
(
Fennah 1950
) and
New Caledonia
(
Fennah 1969
). This material has not been examined to confirm this distribution.
Colour
Vertex light to mid brown, carinae paler; face light brown, carinae paler, anteclypeus darker; pronotum light brown; mesonotum mid to dark brown, paler between lateral and sublateral carinae; legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, apically darker, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma light to mid brown; abdominal sternites light to mid brown.
FIGURE 28.
Oteana lubra
: A habitus; B, C, D head.
Oteana salicoides
: E habitus; F, G, H head.
Morphology
Body length:
♂
6.4–7.7 mm
,
♀
8.4–10.0 mm.
Head: Vertex (total length) 1.4–1.6 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with welldeveloped median carina. Rostrum not reaching hind coxae.
Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent or welldeveloped carinae. Forewing 3.1–3.9 times longer than wide; costa with 0–1 tubercles; 9 apical cells.
Male genitalia: Anal tube as in
Figs 47Q–S
; pygophore and genital styles as in
Figs 47M–N
. Aedeagus (
Figs 47O–P
): Phallotheca with a spine (a) forking into a short branch (a1) and a very long curved branch (a2); a spine (b) forking into three branches (b1, b2, b3); a very short spine (c); and sometimes with a very slender spine (d); phallotheca with a sclerotised rounded flap dorsally. Flagellum membranous, unarmed.
Remarks
In his original description of
Oliarus lubra,
Kirkaldy (1906)
gave the body lengths of male (
8.5 mm
) and female (
8.5–9.25 mm
) specimens.
Kirkaldy (1907)
described
O. lubra
var.
vitiensis
based on male specimens with a body size “as little as
6 mm
” from
Fiji
. The smaller body size is the only character he provides for differentiation of the two varieties. A specimen from Navua,
Fiji
(the only specimen of
O. lubra
var.
vitiensis
available to us for examination) had a body length of
6.5 mm
which is still within the range of body length of Australian specimens of
Ot. lubra
. The morphological configuration of the specimen assigned by Kirkaldy to
O. lubra
var.
vitiensis
does not support the assumption that this taxon is differentiated from
Ot. lubra
from
Australia
. Consequently,
O. lubra
var.
vitiensis
is synonymised with
Ot. lubra
.