Oliarus cochleatus 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 : 36-37

Oliarus cochleatus Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 9E–H, 36D–J)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, Qld : Gordon Creek, Claudie River district, 12º42’S 143º17’E, mv lamp, 6.xii.1986 (G. Daniels, M.A. Schneider) ( QM QMT123831 , originally UQIC).

Etymology Named after a spine on the phallotheca, which is curved like the spiral shell of a snail.

Colour

Vertex mid brown; face light brown, anteclypeus darker; pronotum light brown; mesonotum dark brown, carinae paler; legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light to mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark brown; abdominal sternites mid to dark brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 5.6 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 2.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina.

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 36H–J; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 36F–G. Aedeagus ( Figs 36D–E): Phallotheca with two very long, strongly (spirally) curved spines (a, b); and a short, almost straight spine (c). Flagellum slightly sclerotised, one large spine on apex.