Ozoliarus maru 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 : 63-65

Ozoliarus maru Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 18A–D, 40K–R)

Type material Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, VIC: Extreme N.W. Vic., 21.ii.1927 ( BMNH),

Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, VIC: 1 ♂, 4 ♀, same data as holotype, ( BMNH), AUSTRALIA, SA: 1 ♂, Loxton , ex sticky trap, 6.–21.i.2005 (P. Magarey) ( ASCU) .

Etymology

The term ‘maru’ means ‘black’ in Diyari, an aboriginal language spoken in South Australia ( Thieberger & McGregor 1994), and refers to the ascending (caudally directed) spines on the phallotheca.

Colour

Body black, carinae paler, frons lateral with an indistinct light brown mark; legs light to dark 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: ♂ 4.1 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.8 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.7 times longer than wide; costa with 10 tubercles; 8 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 40K–M; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 40N–O. Aedeagus ( Figs 40P–R): Phallotheca with a bifurcated spine (a) right lateral; a bifurcated spine (b) dorsal; a short, flattened, serrated spine (c); a long, flattened spine (d) ventral; a slender spine (e) right lateral; a strongly curved spine (f) left lateral; and an almost straight spine (g) left lateral at apex. Flagellum membranous with sclerotised blades.