Ozoliarus bumarangoides 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 : 80-82

Ozoliarus bumarangoides Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 24E–H, 45C–K)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, NSW: Woodenbong , 1.xi.1958 (I.C. Yeo) ( QM QMT123832 , originally UQIC) , Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, NSW: 1 ♂, same data as holotype ( UQIC) .

Etymology

The term ‘bumarang’ means boomerang in an aboriginal language spoken in the Sydney region ( Thieberger & McGregor 1994). Named after a boomerang­shaped spine on the phallotheca.

Colour

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

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 6.5–6.7 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.9–2.0 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.0–3.1 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 45H–J; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 45F–G. Aedeagus ( Figs 45C–E): Phallotheca with a very long, strongly curved spine (a); a shorter, almost straight spine (b); and a large, flattened, boomerang­shaped spine (c). Flagellum membranous, with two short spines at apex.