Ozoliarus clipealis (Jacobi) 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 : 52-54

Ozoliarus clipealis (Jacobi) , comb. nov.

( Figs 14A–D, 37I–O)

Oliarus clipealis Jacobi 1928: 33 ( Figs 20a, b)

Type material

Lectotype, here designated, 1 ♂ (examined), AUSTRALIA, WA: Kimberley district (Mjöberg) ( NHRS) ; Paralectotypes, AUSTRALIA, WA: 2 ♂, same data as lectotype ( MTD) .

Remarks A lectotype is designated here to give a diagnostic reference for the species.

Other material examined AUSTRALIA: WA (2 ♂, 1 ♀), NT (1 ♂) .

Colour Body dark brown to black, carinae, clypeus and pronotum paler, frons lateral with a white mark; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, tubercles dark brown (contrasting with veins), pterostigma mid to dark brown; abdominal sternites mid brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 6.1–6.4 mm, ♀ 7.1–7.7 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.2–1.6 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent or well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.5–3.8 times longer than wide; costa with 8–16 tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 37I–K; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 37L–M. Aedeagus ( Figs 37N–O): Phallotheca with an almost straight, slender, not hookshaped spine (a) directed ventrad arising ventrally below midlength; a short spine (b) arising ventrally below midlength; a medium sized spine (c) right lateral; a medium sized spine (d); and a very short spine (e) dorsal. Flagellum partly sclerotised, with two large, flattened spines.