Ozoliarus umbella 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 : 76

Ozoliarus umbella Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 22E–H, 43Q–U, 44A–B)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, Qld : National Pk, xii.1923 (H. Hacker) ( QM QMT123829 ) , Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, Qld : 5 ♂, 6 ♀, same data as holotype ( QM) , 1 ♂, Nanango District , xi.1927 (H. Hacker) ( QM) , 1 ♂, Brisbane , 11.xi.1958 (J. Martin) ( UQIC) , 1 ♂, 16 km N Boonalh , 27.54S 152.41E, 6.–7.ix.1997 (C.J. Burwell) ( QM) , AUSTRALIA, NSW: 1 ♂, South West Rocks , Trial Bay, xii.1929 (A. Musgrave) ( AMS) .

Etymology

The latin term ‘umbella’ means ‘sunshade’. Named after a process on the phallotheca, which is shaped like a sunshade.

Colour

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

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 6.6–7.3 mm, ♀ 7.1–8.2 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 2.0–2.3 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum reaching or surpassing hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well­developed median carina and evanescent or well­developed sublateral and lateral carinae. Forewing 2.9–3.2 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 43U, 44A–B; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 43S–T. Aedeagus ( Figs 43Q–R): Phallotheca with a slightly curved, very long spine (a) left lateral; a long, strongly curved, s­shaped spine (b) ventral; a slender, apically narrowing spine (c) right lateral; a small rounded ventral process below midlength; and a very large, umbrella­shaped, coarsely serrated, sheetlike process dorsolateral. Flagellum membranous with slightly sclerotised spines.