Ozoliarus taroomensis 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 : 74-76

Ozoliarus taroomensis Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 22A–D, 43J–P)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, Qld: 6 km N Taroom , 25.36S 149.46E, 200 m, 11.ix.1992 (G. Daniels) ( QM QMT123835 , originally UQIC) , Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, Qld : 1 ♂, same data as holotype ( UQIC) , 2 ♂, same data as holotype, 1.xi.1991 ( UQIC) , 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Expedition Ra NP, ‘ Amphitheatre’ scrub, 25.13S 148.59E, 520 m, intercept, 25.ix.–17.xii.1997 ( Cook , Monteith) ( QM) .

Etymology Named after Taroom, the type locality.

Colour

Body dark brown to black, carinae, clypeus and pronotum paler, frons lateral with an light brown mark; legs mid to dark brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins dark brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark

brown; abdominal sternites dark brown..

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 6.4–6.9 mm, ♀ 7.9 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 2.0–2.1 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae.

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

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 43J–L; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 43O–P. Aedeagus ( Figs 43M–N): Phallotheca with a very long, moderately curved spine (a) left lateral; a long, strongly curved, s­shaped spine (b) ventral; a more robust, apically widening spine (c) right lateral; a large, sheetlike, bifurcated process ventral about midlength; and a very small, triangular, sheetlike process dorsolateral. Flagellum membranous with one or two sclerotised spines apically; and a sclerotised, finger­shaped process near base.