Ozoliarus quercistylus Locker 2006, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Löcker, Birgit
name: Fletcher, Murray J.
name: Larivière, Marie-Claude
name: Gurr, Geoff M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cixiidae
Ozoliarus
Ozoliarus quercistylus

description: <i>Ozoliarus quercistylus</i> Löcker, sp. nov. (Figs 15A–D, 38F–L) <i>Type material</i> <i>Holotype</i>, &amp;male;, <b>AUSTRALIA, WA</b>: 8 km SW Walsh Point, 14.37S 125.48E, at light, 17.v.1983 (I.D. Naumann, J.C. Cardale) (ANIC), <i>Paratypes</i>, AUSTRALIA, WA: 1 &amp;male;, same data as holotype (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, escarpment, 8 km SW of Walsh Point, Admiralty Gulf, 14.37S 125.48E, 10.v.1983 (D.C.F. Rentz, J. Balderson) (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, Kimberley Research Stn via Wyndham, 14.vii.1956 (E.C.B. Langfield) (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, Old Doongan, 15.19S 126.32E, 2.viii.1975 (I.F.B. Common, M.S. Upton) (ANIC), <b>AUSTRALIA, NT</b>: 1 &amp;male;, Goose Lagoon, 11 km SW by S of Borroloola, 16.05S 136.15E, 31.x.1975 (M.S. Upton) (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, 6.4 km S by SW of Victoria River Downs, along Wickham River, 17.vi.1973 (L.P. Kelsey) (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, 1 &amp;female;, 8 km ENE of Victoria River Downs, 12.vii.1973 (L.P. Kelsey) (ANIC), 3 &amp;male;, 18 &amp;female;, Tindal, at light, 1.–20.xii.1967 (W. Vestjens) (ANIC), <b>AUSTRALIA, Qld</b>: 1 &amp;male;, 14 miles SE Normanton, 40 m, 3.xi.1962 (E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro) (CAS), 1 &amp;male;, 17 miles W Monto, 500 m, 21.xi.1962 (E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro) (CAS), 3 &amp;male;, 9 &amp;female;, 37 miles NW Bowen, 20 m, 14.xi.1962 (E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro) (CAS). <i>Etymology</i> Named after the genital styles, which rounded like the leaf margin of certain oak species of the genus <i>Quercus</i>. <i>Colour</i> Body mid to dark brown, carinae and pronotum paler; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins and sometimes on various parts of the wing, veins light brown, tubercles dark brown (contrasting with veins), pterostigma mid to dark brown; abdominal sternites mid to dark brown. <i>Morphology</i> Body length: &amp;male; 5.4–6.1 mm, &amp;female; 6.4–7.9 mm Head: Vertex (total length) 1.2–1.6 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely. Postclypeus with evanescent or well­developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent or well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.4–3.7 times longer than wide; costa with 12–20 tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 38F–H; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 38I–J. Aedeagus (Figs 38K–L): Phallotheca with a large hookshaped spine (a) directed ventrad arising ventrally below midlength; a very long, rounded spine (b) arising ventrally below midlength reaching apex of aedeagus; two medium sized spines (c, d) right lateral; and a very short spine (e) dorsal. Flagellum partly sclerotised, with a long, strongly curved spine (A) left lateral at midlength of flagellum; and two large, bifurcated, flattened spines (C, D).
description: Published as part of <i>Löcker, Birgit, Fletcher, Murray J., Larivière, Marie-Claude &amp; Gurr, Geoff M., 2006, The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), pp. 1-138 in Zootaxa 1290 (1290)</i> on page 55