Oliarus trispiralis 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 : 38

Oliarus trispiralis Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 10A–D, 36K–Q)

Type material Holotype, ♂, CHRISTMAS ISLAND: Jedda , x.1983 (L. Hill) ( ANIC).

Etymology Named after the three strongly (spirally) curved spines on the phallotheca.

Colour

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

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 6.6 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 3.2 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum not reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.0 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 36O–Q; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 36K–L. Aedeagus ( Figs 36M–N): Phallotheca with three long strongly (spirally) curved spines (a, b, c). Flagellum membranous, unarmed.