Cordoliarus mareebensis 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 : 13

Cordoliarus mareebensis Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 3A–D, 31A–G)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, Qld: 32 km W of Mareeba , D­vac, 31.i.1982 (J.F. Donaldson) ( QM QMT123825 , originally QDPC) , Paratypes, 1 ♀, AUSTRALIA, Qld : 7 km W Petford, 24.ii.1997 (L.B. O’Brien) ( LBOB) .

Etymology Named after Mareeba, the type locality.

Colour

Body dark brown, carinae paler, frons laterally with a pale mark; legs light to dark brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites dark brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 6.2 mm, ♀ 5.6–7.3.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent carinae. Forewing 2.9 times longer than wide; costa with 20–28 tubercles; 10 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 31C–D, G; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 31E–F. Aedeagus ( Figs 31A–B): Phallotheca with a flattened bifurcate spine (a) left lateral; a short, rounded spine (b); a longer, rounded spine (c) ventral; and a very long flattened spine (d) right lateral. Flagellum sclerotised, unarmed.