Ozoliarus cynosurus 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 : 61-63

Ozoliarus cynosurus Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 17A–D, 39Q–U, 40A–C)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, Qld: Eidsvold , 6.x.1929 ( ANIC) , Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, Qld : 1 ♂, 6 km W Ban Ban Springs, via Gayndah, on Atelaya hemiglauca , 8.xi.1981 (E.M. Exley, J. King) ( UQIC), 1 ♂, Noondoo, 28.37S 148.26E, 26.ii.1963 (A.L. Dyce, M.D. Murray) ( ANIC) .

Etymology

The Greek term ‘kyon’ means ‘dog’, and ‘oura’ ‘tail’. Named after spine (b) on the phallotheca, which is shaped like the tail of a dog.

Colour

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

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 5.2–6.2 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.6–2.3 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent or well­developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.3–3.7 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 39Q–S; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 40B–C. Aedeagus ( Figs 39T–U, 40A): Phallotheca with a large u­shaped, sheetlike spine (a) right lateral; a short, slender spine (b) arising from same base; a flattened, sickleshaped, serrated spine (c) ventrally; a rounded spine (d); and a bifurcated, flattened spine (e) arising dorsally from the same base; a moderately curved spine (f) left lateral; and a bifurcated spine (g) left lateral at apex. Flagellum membranous with sclerotised blades.