Pentastiridius felis (Kirkaldy)

Löcker, Birgit, Fletcher, Murray J., Larivière, Marie-Claude & Gurr, Geoff M., 2006, The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), Zootaxa 1290 (1290), pp. 1-138 : 100-102

Pentastiridius felis (Kirkaldy)

( Figs 30, 49E–K)

Oliarus felis Kirkaldy, 1906: 399 .

Oliarus (Nesopompe) felis Kirkaldy, 1907: 107 .

Pentastiridius (Nesopompe) felis (Kirkaldy) , Holzinger et al. 2002: 130.

Oliarus latipennis Jacobi 1928:34 ( Fig. 21) syn. nov.

Type material

Lectotype of P. felis , here designated, ♂ (examined), AUSTRALIA, Qld : Cairns, viii.1904 ( BPBM, nr 1181) ; Paralectotype, AUSTRALIA, Qld: 1 ♂ (examined), same data as lectotype .

Lectotype of O. latipennis , here designated, ♂, AUSTRALIA, Qld : Yarrabah (Mjöberg) ( NHRS) , Paralectotypes, AUSTRALIA, Qld : 4 ♂, 2 ♀, same data as lectotype (3 ♂ examined) ( MTD) .

Remarks Examination of the type series of Oliarus latipennis Jacobi revealed that this species is a junior synonym of Pentastiridius felis Kirkaldy. Because of the similarity of this species to species in Asia and Africa, lectotypes are designated to fix the identities of the species with which these names are associated.

Other material examined AUSTRALIA: NSW (3 ♂), Qld (69 ♂, 25 ♀) .

Distribution Australia (New South Wales, Queensland), Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa.

Remarks

Fennah recorded this species from Fiji ( Fennah 1950), New Caledonia ( Fennah 1969), and Samoa ( Fennah 1967). This material has not been examined to confirm this distribution.

Colour

Body dark brown or black, carinae light brown; legs light brown to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless apically sometimes darker, veins and tubercles concolorous with cells.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 3.9–4.5 mm, ♀ 5.2–5.8 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.1–1.3 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with evanescent or well­developed median carina. Rostrum reaching or surpassing hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent or well­developed median and lateral carinae and well­developed sublateral carinae. Forewing 2.6–2.8 times longer than wide; costa with 0–1 tubercles; 9 (rarely 10) apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 49E–G; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 49H–I. Aedeagus ( Figs 49J–K): Phallotheca with two long spines (a longer than b) arising apically curving moderately towards left lateral; a short, moderately curved spine (c) arising ventrally about midlength; and a large process, shaped like bird head, right lateral. Flagellum membranous, unarmed.