Ozoliarus smithi 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 : 68

Ozoliarus smithi Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 19E–H, 41P–U, 42A–B)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, Qld: near Brookdale , 10 m, 2.xi.1962 (E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro) ( CAS Nr 18197) , Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, Qld: 11 ♂, same data as holotype ( CAS), 2 ♂, same data as holotype ( ASCU) .

Etymology Named in honour of the first author’s friend Tony Smith.

Colour

Body mid to dark brown, carinae and pronotum paler, frons lateral with or without a light brown mark; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless without brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites dark brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 4.9–5.7 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.5–1.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent or well­developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.4–3.7 times longer than wide; costa with 5–9 tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 41U, 42A–B; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 41S–T. Aedeagus ( Figs 41P–R): Phallotheca as in Oz. pitta except for the following: spine (a) shorter, spines (a, b, c) arising from same base, spine (e) absent and branch (g2) longer; flagellum as in Oz. pitta .