Ozoliarus laertes (Kirkaldy) 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 : 77-78

publication ID	11755334
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5072977
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FE87F4-FFEC-0E02-B863-96CEFBD626EB
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Ozoliarus laertes (Kirkaldy)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Ozoliarus laertes (Kirkaldy) View in CoL , comb. nov.

( Figs 23A–D, 44C–I)

Oliarus laertes Kirkaldy, 1906: 398 View in CoL .

Type material

Lectotype, here designated ♂ (examined), AUSTRALIA, NSW: Mittagong , i.1905 (Koebele) ( BPBM, nr 1188).

Remarks

Kirkaldy’s (1906) original description does not specify whether the type series consists of more than one specimen. Only one specimen has been found in the BPBM and it is here designated as lectotype in order to clarify the identity of the species.

Other material examined AUSTRALIA: ACT (1 ♂) , NSW (17 ♂, 5 ♀), Qld (1 ♂) .

Distribution

Australia (Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland), Fiji, Rennell Island .

Colour

Body dark brown to black, carinae paler, clypeus sometimes mid brown; legs mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with indistinct brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid to dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 5.3–6.4 mm, ♀ 6.8–7.9 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.7–2.1 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent or welldeveloped median carina. Rostrum reaching (rarely surpassing) hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Mesonotum with evanescent or welldeveloped median and lateral carinae and welldeveloped sublateral carinae. Forewing 3.1–3.4 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 44C–E; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 44H–I. Aedeagus ( Figs 44F–G): Phallotheca with three long spines (a, b, d) pointing downwards (cephalad); and a shorter spine (c) curved upwards (caudad). Flagellum membranous, sometimes with membranous or slightly sclerotised spines.