Ozoliarus serratus 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 : 66-68

Ozoliarus serratus Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 19A–D, 41H–O)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, WA: Cadjeput Rockhole , 21.31.55S 119.08.57E, UV light, 29.ix.1988 (B.P. Hanich et al.) ( WAMP Nr 34365) , Paratype, AUSTRALIA, WA: 1 ♂, same data as holotype ( WAMP) .

Etymology

The Latin term ‘serratus’ means ‘toothed like a saw’. Named after the serrated spines on the phallotheca.

Colour

Body dark brown to black, carinae paler, frons lateral with an indistinct light brown mark; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless without brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown..

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 5.7–6.5 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.9–2.2 times longer than wide; basal emargination rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent or well­developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.6–3.7 times longer than wide; costa with 1–3 tubercles; 8 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 41H–J; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 41N–O. Aedeagus ( Figs 41K–M): Phallotheca with three flattened, upwards (caudad) curved spines (a, b, c); all three arising from same base right lateral; spines (b and c) serrated; an upwards (caudad) curved spine (d) dorsal; a slender, slightly curved spine (e); and a bifurcated spine (f) left lateral at apex. Flagellum membranous with sclerotised blades and a small sclerotised spine (A).