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Ozoliarus cynosurus Locker 2006, sp. nov.

Description

Ozoliarus cynosurus Löcker, sp. nov.

(Figs 17A–D, 39Q–U, 40A–C)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, Qld: Eidsvold, 6.x.1929 (ANIC), Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, Qld: 1 ♂, 6 km W Ban Ban Springs, via Gayndah, on Atelaya hemiglauca, 8.xi.1981 (E.M. Exley, J. King) (UQIC), 1 ♂, Noondoo, 28.37S 148.26E, 26.ii.1963 (A.L. Dyce, M.D. Murray) (ANIC).

Etymology

The Greek term ‘kyon’ means ‘dog’, and ‘oura’ ‘tail’. Named after spine (b) on the phallotheca, which is shaped like the tail of a dog.

Colour

Body dark brown to black, carinae paler, frons lateral with a light brown mark; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with indistinct brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid to dark brown; abdominal sternites mid brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 5.2–6.2 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.6–2.3 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent or well­developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.3–3.7 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 39Q–S; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 40B–C. Aedeagus (Figs 39T–U, 40A): Phallotheca with a large u­shaped, sheetlike spine (a) right lateral; a short, slender spine (b) arising from same base; a flattened, sickleshaped, serrated spine (c) ventrally; a rounded spine (d); and a bifurcated, flattened spine (e) arising dorsally from the same base; a moderately curved spine (f) left lateral; and a bifurcated spine (g) left lateral at apex. Flagellum membranous with sclerotised blades.

Notes

Published as part of Löcker, Birgit, Fletcher, Murray J., Larivière, Marie-Claude & Gurr, Geoff M., 2006, The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), pp. 1-138 in Zootaxa 1290 (1290) on pages 61-63

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ANIC , UQIC, ANIC
Event date
1929-10-06 , 1963-02-26
Family
Cixiidae
Genus
Ozoliarus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Locker
Species
cynosurus
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
1929-10-06 , 1963-02-26/1981-11-08
Taxonomic concept label
Ozoliarus cynosurus Löcker, 2006