Oteana salicoides 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 : 95-96

Oteana salicoides Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 28E–H, 48A–G)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, NT: Snake Bay , Melville Island, light trap, 8.xii.1982 (C. Wilson) ( MAGD 4750 ) , Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, Qld: 1 ♂, Booby Island , at light, 21.–22.xii.1977 ( ANIC) , 1 ♂, 7941 Yule Point, Cairns­Mossman Road , 27.x.1966 (E.B. Britton) ( ANIC) , 1 ♂, Horn Island, Torres Strait , sweep of arborescent veg. in mangroves, 26.vii.1975 (H. Heatwole) ( AMS) .

Etymology

Named after the arrangement of spines on the phallotheca which resembles the hanging branches of some trees of the genus Salix .

Colour

Head light brown, carinae paler, anteclypeus darker; pronotum light brown; mesonotum mid brown (sometimes paler between lateral and sublateral carinae); legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, apically darker, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma light to mid brown; abdominal sternites light brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 6.1–7.0 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.6–2.0 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled, rectangular or obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent or well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.0–3.3 times longer than wide; costa with 0–1 tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 48E–G; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 48C–D. Aedeagus ( Figs 48A–B): Phallotheca with a spine (a) forking into a short branch (a1) and a long branch (a2); a spine (b) forking into two long branches (b1, b2); a very short spine (c); and a slender spine (d). Flagellum sclerotised, unarmed.

Remarks

The general arrangement of spines on the phallotheca resembles that of Ot. lubra ; it differs from Ot. lubra in the presence of only two branches of spine (b), instead of three branches.