Oliarus kampaspe Kirkaldy, 1928

Löcker, Birgit, Fletcher, Murray J., Larivière, Marie-Claude & Gurr, Geoff M., 2006, The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), Zootaxa 1290 (1290), pp. 1-138 : 41-42

Oliarus kampaspe Kirkaldy nom. dub.

( Figs 11E–H)

Oliarus kampaspe Kirkaldy, 1906: 398 .

Type material Syntype, ♂ (examined), AUSTRALIA, Qld: Kuranda , viii.1904 ( BPBM) .

Remarks

The abdomen of the syntype is missing, but the data label bears a male symbol. We have therefore presumed that specimen is a male.

Colour

Body mid brown, carinae paler except for some carinae on mesonotum; legs light brown to mid brown; forewing hyaline white, with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, apically darker, tubercles indistinct, concolorous with veins, pterostigma light to mid brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 5.5 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with evanescent to well­developed carinae. Rostrum not reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent carinae. Forewing 3.1 times longer than wide; costa with 2 tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Unknown (only known specimen is lacking its abdomen).

Remarks

The narrow vertex and the chaetotaxy of the hind leg (2 lateral spines on the tibia and 5 apical teeth on the 2 nd tarsomere) verify the placement within the genus Oliarus sensu E meljanov. The presence of 8 apical teeth on the 1 st tarsomere, however, is unusual within the genus; this feature is only shared with O. phelia . See comments in remarks section of O. phelia .

Jacobi (1928) presents a redescription of O. kampaspe Kirkaldy based on specimens from the Kimberley district. One male and two females of this material (located in the NHRS and MTD) were available to us for examination. They showed 4 lateral spines on the hind tibia and 7 apical teeth on the 1 st and 2 nd tarsomere, which indicates that these specimens belong to Ozoliarus Löcker and not to Oliarus sensu stricto which is characterised by the presence of 2 lateral spines on the hind tibia and five apical teeth of the 2 nd hind tarsomere. Jacobi’s species therefore cannot be O. kampaspe and is recognised here as a new species, Ozoliarus poculum .