Ozoliarus dingkana (Distant) Löcker & Fletcher & Larivière & Gurr, 2006

Löcker, Birgit, Fletcher, Murray J., Larivière, Marie-Claude & Gurr, Geoff M., 2006, The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), Zootaxa 1290 (1290), pp. 1-138 : 69-71

Ozoliarus dingkana (Distant) comb. nov.

( Figs 20A–D, 42C–I)

Oliarus dingkana Distant 1907a: 282 .

Type material

Lectotype, here designated (examined), ♂, AUSTRALIA, Qld : Peak Downs ( BMNH) , Paralectotypes (examined), AUSTRALIA, Qld: 1♀, 1♂ or ♀ (abdomen missing), same data as lectotype ( BMNH) .

Remarks A lectotype is designated herein in order to clarify the identity of the species.

Other material examined AUSTRALIA: Qld (2 ♂, 3 ♀) .

Colour

Body black, carinae and clypeus paler, frons lateral with a white mark; legs light to dark brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown and in some portions of the wing dark brown, tubercles dark brown, pterostigma dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown..

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 6.1–6.5 mm, ♀ 6.4–8.1 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.8 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.3–3.6 times longer than wide; costa with 11–25 tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 42C–E; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 42H–I. Aedeagus ( Figs 42F–G): Phallotheca with a large, bi­ or trifurcated spine (a) ventral; and a ventral ridge with two less distinct humps, one of them bearing pair of short spines (b) fused together, their tips pointing in opposite directions. Flagellum membranous with a slightly sclerotised spine at apex of flagellum.

Remarks

Oz. dingkana differs from Oz. triangularis in the absence of and spine (A) and a dorsal spine (b). In Oz. triangularis , however, there is an additional set of spines (b) arising from the ventral ridge.