Ozoliarus antennoides 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 : 80

Ozoliarus antennoides Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 24A–D, 44Q–U, 45A–B)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, NSW: Moree , xii.1917 ( ASCU HE029225) , Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, NSW: 2 ♂, Narrabri, by sweeping around cultivated fields, 15.iii.1960 (M.I. Nikitin) ( BMNH) , AUSTRALIA, Qld : 1 ♂, Gatton, 6.xi.1933 (F.A. Perkins) ( UQIC) .

Etymology Named after a spine on the phallotheca which points almost straight upwards.

Colour

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

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 5.5–5.7 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.3–1.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum reaching or not reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.3–3.5 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 44Q–S; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 44T–U. Aedeagus ( Figs 45A–B): Phallotheca with a long, moderately curved spine (a) left lateral; a long, moderately curved spine (b) ventral; a long, almost straight spine (c) pointing upwards (caudal); a very short spine (d) dorsal at apex of aedeagus; and a triangular ventral ridge (fold) pointing upwards (caudad) below midlength. Flagellum slightly sclerotised with one long and one very short spine.