Ozoliarus olene 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 olene

description: Ozoliarus olene Löcker, sp. nov.   
(Figs 26A–D, 46F–P)  
 Type material   
 Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, NT: 110 miles E of Daly Waters, 11.i.1986 (M.S. & B.J. Moulds) (ASCU HE025958), Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, NT: 1 ♂, 8 km ENE of Victoria River Downs, 11.ix.1973 (L.P. Kelsey) (ANIC), 1 ♂, Warlock Ponds, 23.viii.1964 (T. E. Woodward) (UQIC), AUSTRALIA, Qld: 1 ♂, Clare, sweeping kenaf, 2.ix.1986 (I. Kay) (QDPC), 1 ♂, 37 miles NW Bowen, 20 m, 14.xi.1962 (E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro) (CAS), 1 ♂, near Brookdale, 10 m, 2.xi.1962 (E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro) (CAS).   
 Material excluded from type series   
 AUSTRALIA, NT: 1 ♂, 8 km ENE of Victoria River Downs, at light, 12.vii.1973 (L.P. Kelsey) (ANIC), 1 ♂, same data, 11.ix.1973 (ANIC), AUSTRALIA, Qld: 1 ♂, Carnarvon Rge, 14.xii.1938 (N. Geary) (AMS), AUSTRALIA, NSW: 1 ♂, 1.05 km ESE Murrawombie Bridge, ‘ Quinine Park’, Eucalyptus largiflorens patch, 31.10.21S 147.08.08E, 13.xii.1999 (R. Harris, T. Moulds) (AMS), 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Brewarrina, 21.iv.1997 (V. T. Glover) (ASCU), 1 ♂, 3 ♀, Nyngan district, 1.–9.ii.1960 (T. E. Woodward) (UQIC).   
 Etymology   
The Greek term ‘olene’ means ‘elbow’. Named after a spine on the phallotheca which is bent like an elbow.  
 Colour   
Body mid, dark brown or black, carinae paler; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, apically darker, tubercles dark brown (contrasting with veins), pterostigma light to mid brown; abdominal sternites dark brown.  
 Morphology   
Body length: ♂ 4.4–5.1 mm, ♀ 5.2–6.6 mm.  
Head: Vertex (total length) 1.6–2.0 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with evanescent median carina. Rostrum reaching or not reaching hind coxae.  
Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Mesonotum with absent, evanescent or well­developed median carina, well­developed sublateral carinae and evanescent or well­developed lateral carinae. Forewing 3.3–4.0 times longer than wide; costa with 11–31 tubercles; 7–8 apical cells.  
Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 46F–H; ventromedian process of pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 46I–J. Aedeagus (Figs 46K–M): Phallotheca with a short, almost straight spine (a); and a moderately curved spine (b) left lateral; a large strongly curved spine (c) with flattened, serrated processes; a very long, flattened spine (d); a very slender spine (e); a membranous spine (f); and a very short, dorsal spine (g). Flagellum partly sclerotised with 2–3 spines.  
 Remarks The material listed above as being excluded from the type series shows a minor variation from the type material. The phallotheca differs from the type in the absence of spine (e and g) and a rounded instead of a flattened spine (d) as in Figs 46N–P. Spine (f) is stronger in the variant than in the type. Further research is needed to clarify whether this variant represents a distinct species.
description: Published as part of Löcker, Birgit, Fletcher, Murray J., Larivière, Marie-Claude & Gurr, Geoff M., 2006, The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), pp. 1-138 in Zootaxa 1290 (1290) on pages 84-85