Ozoliarus semicircularis 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 : 72

Ozoliarus semicircularis Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 21A–D, 42Q–U, 43A–B)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, Qld : 7 km W Petford, 24.ii.1997 (L.B. O’Brien) ( ASCU HE029567).

Etymology Named after the semicircular shape of the ventromedian process of the pygophore.

Colour

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

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 5.1 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 2.1 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular (rarely acutely angled). Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.2x longer than wide; costa with 4–6 tubercles; 7–8 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 42Q–S; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 43A–B. Aedeagus ( Figs 42T–U): Phallotheca with a large trifurcated spine (a) ventral; and a ventral ridge with two humps. Flagellum membranous without sclerotised spines.

Remarks

Oz. semicircularis differs from Oz. triangularis in the absence of spine (b) and spine (A).