Miclucha laratensis (Muir)

Löcker, Birgit, Fletcher, Murray J., Larivière, Marie-Claude & Gurr, Geoff M., 2006, The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), Zootaxa 1290 (1290), pp. 1-138 : 15-16

Miclucha laratensis (Muir)

( Figs 3E–H, 31H–O)

Oliarus laratensis Muir, 1924: 526 ( Figs 20a–b).

Miclucha laratensis (Muir) , Emeljanov, 2001b: 72.

Type material

Holotype, ♂, INDONESIA: Larat ( BPBM) ; Paratypes, INDONESIA: 3 ♂, 6 ♀, same data as holotype .

Other material examined AUSTRALIA: Qld (1 ♂, 5 ♀), WA (1 ♀) .

Colour

Vertex mid to dark brown, carinae paler; face light brown or pale yellow, frons lateral with an indistinct light brown mark; pronotum light brown or pale yellow; mesonotum light to mid brown; legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless, brown marks along crossveins and on apex of wing, veins mid brown, tubercles indistinct, concolorous with veins; pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites light brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 8.9 mm, ♀ 8.2–9.9 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 3.0 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with all carinae evanescent or well­developed. Forewing 3.1 times longer than wide; costa with 0–4 tubercles; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 4–5 lateral spines; 5 large and 1 very small apical tooth; 1 st and 2 nd tarsomere with 9 apical teeth and no platellae.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 31J–K, O; pygophore and genital styles with long, slender, sclerotised, dorsal process as in Figs 31L–N. Aedeagus ( Figs 31H–I): Phallotheca with a long, strongly curved spine (a) left lateral; a long, thick spine (b) ventral; and a very short spine (c) arising from base of spine (b); all spines pointing upwards (caudad). Flagellum membranous to slightly sclerotised, unarmed.

Remarks

Van Stalle (1991) makes the following comment in the remarks section of the species description of O. laratensis , “The reference “Type Nr 1096” in the original description is interpreted as a holotype designation.”