Oliarus lilinoe Kirkaldy, 1907

Löcker, Birgit, Fletcher, Murray J., Larivière, Marie-Claude & Gurr, Geoff M., 2006, The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), Zootaxa 1290 (1290), pp. 1-138 : 42-44

Oliarus lilinoe Kirkaldy nom. dub.

( Figs 12A–D)

Oliarus lilinoe Kirkaldy, 1907: 108 .

Type material Syntype, ♀ (examined), AUSTRALIA, Qld: Cairns , vii.1904 (Perkins) ( BPBM) .

Colour

Body mid brown, carinae and area between lateral and sublateral carinae on mesonotum paler, frons lateral with a pale mark; legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless, with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, apically darker, tubercles mid brown (contrasting with veins), pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites

mid brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♀ 5.5 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 2.0 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum not reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.4 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 8 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Unknown (only known specimen is a female).

Remarks

The narrow vertex and the chaetotaxy of the hind leg (2 lateral spines on the tibia, 7 apical teeth on the 1 st tarsomere, and 5 apical teeth on the 2 nd tarsomere) verify the placement within the genus Oliarus .