Oliarus acuminatus Muir, 1924

Löcker, Birgit, Fletcher, Murray J., Larivière, Marie-Claude & Gurr, Geoff M., 2006, The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), Zootaxa 1290 (1290), pp. 1-138 : 28-29

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scientific name	Oliarus acuminatus Muir
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Oliarus acuminatus Muir View in CoL

( Figs 6E–H, 34A–G)

Oliarus acuminatus Muir, 1924: 524 View in CoL ( Figs 17a–b).

Type material

Holotype, ♂ (examined), INDONESIA: Larat Island , x.1907 (F. Muir) ( BPBM) ; Paratypes, INDONESIA: 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (examined), same data as holotype .

Other material examined AUSTRALIA: NT (31 ♂, 9 ♀), Qld (7 ♂, 2 ♀) .

Colour

Vertex light brown; face light brown, lateral margins paler, anteclypeus darker, frons lateral with a pale mark; pronotum light brown; mesonotum light to mid brown; legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, apically darker, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid brown to dark brown; abdominal sternites light brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 5.2–6.4 mm, ♀ 6.4–7.3 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 2.9–3.9 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with welldeveloped median carina. Rostrum reaching or not reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent or welldeveloped carinae. Forewing 3.0–3.2 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube in caudal view with a triangular process as in Figs 34E–G; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 34C–D. Aedeagus ( Figs 34A–B): Phallotheca with a long spine (a) arising right lateral near apex, passing phallotheca ventrally, crossing over to dorsal side apically; a short spine (b); and two long spines (c, d) dorsal. Flagellum membranous, unarmed.

Remarks

In the original description Muir (1924) states that the type series consists of 3 males and 4 females. However, we can only confirm the presence of 2 males and 2 females in the collection of the BPBM.

Van Stalle (1991) makes the following comment in the remarks section of the species description of O. busoensis , “The reference “Type Nr 1092” in the original description is considered as a holotype designation.”