Oteana sponsa (Kirkaldy) Löcker & Fletcher & Larivière & Gurr, 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 : 98-99

Oteana sponsa (Kirkaldy) , comb. nov.

( Figs 29E–H, 48P–R, 49A–D)

Oliarus sponsa Kirkaldy, 1906: 400 .

Type material

Lectotype, here designated, ♂ (examined), AUSTRALIA, Qld : Cairns, viii.1904 ( BPBM, nr 1205).

Remarks A lectotype is designated herein in order to clarify the identity of the species.

Other material examined AUSTRALIA: NT (118 ♂, 74 ♀) , Qld (25 ♂, 22 ♀) , WA (1 ♂, 1 ♀).

Colour

Body including legs light brown (with a yellow or orange tinge), pronotum paler; forewing hyaline white or light brown with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown apically darker, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma light brown; abdominal sternites light brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 6.2–7.4 mm, ♀ 7.2–8.6 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.4–1.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum reaching or not reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Mesonotum with evanescent or well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.0–3.5 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 49A–D; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 48P–Q. Aedeagus ( Figs 48R, 49A–B): Phallotheca very short and wide with a long, flattened spine (a) left lateral; a long, flattened spine (b) right lateral; and often with 1–3 small spines (c). Flagellum membranous with sclerotised ridge, unarmed.