Oliarus busoensis Van Stalle, 1989

Löcker, Birgit, Fletcher, Murray J., Larivière, Marie-Claude & Gurr, Geoff M., 2006, The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), Zootaxa 1290 (1290), pp. 1-138 : 35-36

Oliarus busoensis Van Stalle

( Figs 9A–D, 35Q–T, 36A–C)

Oliarus busoensis Van Stalle, 1989: 176 ( Figs 20–26).

Type material Holotype, ♂, PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Morobe Prov., Buso , ix–xi.1979 (J. Martin)

( BMNH); Paratypes, PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 1 ♂, Upper Fly River , Aimbak –Omo Area, 19.x.1972 ( BMNH) ; NEW GUINEA: 1 ♂, Oranjegebergte, 1927 (A. Kalthofen) ( ZMAN) .

Other material examined AUSTRALIA: Qld (1 ♂) .

Colour

Head and pronotum light brown; mesonotum mid brown, paler between lateral and sublateral carinae; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites mid brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 9.1 mm.

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

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent carinae. Forewing 3.0 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 10 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 36A–C; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 35S–T. Aedeagus ( Figs 35Q–R): Phallotheca with a very long, strongly curved spine (a); and two short, almost straight, upwards (caudad) pointing spines (b, c). Flagellum partly sclerotised, unarmed.