Oliarus globosus 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 : 29-30

Oliarus globosus Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 7A–D, 34H–O)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, NT: Nourlangie Creek , 8 km E of Mt Cahill, 12.52S 132.47E, 17.xi.1972 ( T. Weir, A. Allwood) ( MAGD I002151 , originally NTDPI) , Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, NT: 1 ♂, same data as holotype ( MAGD) , 1 ♂, same data as holotype, 7.x.1975 (A. Allwood, T. Angeles) ( MAGD) , 1 ♂, 1 km S of Cahills Crossing , E ast Alligator R., 12.26S 132.58E, 3.xi.1972 (Upton, Barrett) ( ANIC) , 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Tindal , at light, 1.–20.xii.1967 (W. Vestjens) ( ANIC) , 2 ♂, 9 km N by E of Mudginberry HS, 12.31S 132.54E, 30.x.1972 (Upton, Barrett) ( ANIC) .

Etymology

The Latin term ‘globosus’ means ‘round as a ball’. Named after the large globular base of a spine on the phallotheca.

Colour

Body dark brown to black, carinae and pronotum paler; legs light brown; forewing hyaline white with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, apically darker, tubercles dark brown (contrasting with veins), pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites light to dark brown.

Morphology Body length: ♂ 4.5–4.8 mm, ♀ 4.7–4.8 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.7–2.1 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum not reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.2–3.5 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 8 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 34M–O; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 34K–L. Aedeagus ( Figs 34H–J): Phallotheca with a long spine (a) curved as in O. acuminatus ; a moderately curved spine (b) with very large globular base; and two dorsal spines (c, d) as in O. acuminatus . Flagellum membranous, unarmed.