Oliarus cuberlii Löcker, 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 : 25-26

Oliarus cuberlii Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 5E–H, 33E–L)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, NT: Arnhem Land , Maningrida, 5 m, Eucalyptus , 17.iii.1961 (J.L. & M. Gressitt) ( BPBM 16615 ).

Etymology Named in honour of the first author’s friend Lucio Cuberli.

Colour

Body mid brown, carinae and pronotum paler; legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown apically darker, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma light to mid brown; abdominal sternites mid brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 4.6 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 2.5 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.5 times longer than wide; costa with 3–5 tubercles; 8 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 33J–L; pygophore dorsolaterally on each side without long, outwardly curving, spinelike process; pygophore as in Fig. 33H, genital styles with large spinelike process directed dorsad as in Figs 33H–I. Aedeagus ( Figs 33E –G): Phallotheca with a long, moderately curved spine (a) arising ventrally at apex; a short, strongly curved, bifurcated spine (b) dorsally; and a medium sized, sclerotised flap ventrally. Flagellum slightly sclerotised, unarmed, very small.