Ozoliarus poculum 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 poculum

description: <i>Ozoliarus poculum</i> Löcker, sp. nov. (Figs 27A–D, 47F–L) <i>Oliarus kampaspe</i> Kirkaldy <i>sensu</i> Jacobi 1928:32, misidentification of <i>O. kampaspe</i> Kirkaldy, 1906: 398. <i>Remarks</i> Jacobi (1928) presents a redescription of <i>O. kampaspe</i> Kirkaldy based on specimens from the Kimberley district, which were available to us for examination. These specimens were misidentified by Jacobi (see further details in the remarks section of <i>O. kampaspe</i> Kirkaldy) and represent a new species described herein as <i>Ozoliarus poculum</i>. <i>Type material</i> <i>Holotype</i>, 1 &amp;male;, <b>AUSTRALIA, NSW</b>: 20 km W of White Cliffs, 23.–24.ii.1981 (B.J. Loudon) (ASCU HE016869), <i>Paratypes</i>, AUSTRALIA, NSW: 3 &amp;male;, 1 &amp;female;, same data as holotype (ASCU), 2 &amp;male;, 4 &amp;female;, 7 km N Tibooburra, dry creek bed, mv lamp, 24.ii.1981 (B.J. Loudon, R. Pigott) (ASCU), 1 &amp;male;, same data, 12.iv.1979 (B.J. Loudon) (ASCU), 1 &amp;male;, 2 &amp;female;, Wanaaring, 25.ii.1981 (B.J. Loudon, R. Pigott) (ASCU), 1 &amp;male;, bank of Merri Merri Ck, 2.5 km N of Quambone, 30.54.38S 147.51.56E, ex <i>Eucalyptus largiflorens</i>, 14.xii.1999 (R. Harris, T. Moulds) (AMS), 1 &amp;male;, Lord Howe Island, UV lamp, 24.ix.1991 (G. Brown) (ASCU), <b>AUSTRALIA, NT</b>: 4 &amp;male;, Blast site camp, Fossil area on Camfield Station, 16.ix.1985 (I. Archibald) (MAGD), 1 &amp;male;, Alroy Downs Station, 19.18S 136.04E, 5.iii.1980 (G. Gow, P. Horner) (MAGD), 1 &amp;male;, Junction WH, 16 km SW Austral Downs, at light, 22.ix.1977 (G.F. Gross) (SAM), 1 &amp;male;, 10 miles S Dunmara, 200 m, 26.x.1962 (E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro) (CAS), 1 &amp;male;, Devil’s Marbles, 350 m, 27.x.1962 (E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro) (CAS), <b>AUSTRALIA, Qld</b>: 1 &amp;female;, Cunnamulla (N. Geary) (AMS), 3 &amp;male;, 4 &amp;female;, same data, x.1941 (AMS), 1 &amp;male;, 4 &amp;female;, same data, ii.1942 (AMS), 2 &amp;male;, 3 &amp;female;, same data, i.1943 (AMS), 1 &amp;male;, 9 km WSW of Adavale, 25.54.39S 144.30.51E, 270 m, <i>Eremophila mitchellii</i>, xi.2002 (Schuh, Cassis, Silveira) (AMS), 1 &amp;male;, Moranbah, 4 km S, 22.02S 148.03E, mv lamp, 3.x.2003 (G.B. Monteith) (QM), 1 &amp;male;, Dynevor Lakes, 88 km W Eulo, 28.05S 144.12E, 150 m, 28.ix.1991 (G. Daniels) (UQIC), 2 &amp;male;, 1 &amp;female;, Paroo River, Eulo, 28.09S 145.02E, 150 m, on <i>Pluchea baccharoides</i>, 25.ix.1991 (G. Daniels) (UQIC), 1 &amp;female;, same data, 23.ix.1991 (UQIC), <b>AUSTRALIA, SA</b>: 2 &amp;male;, New Kalamurina St., Warburton R., 9.iii.1972 (E.G. Matthews, T. Houston) (SAM), 1 &amp;male;, Billeroo Dam, 14 km E Frome Dawns Stn HS, at light, 20.xi.1975 (G.F. Gross, V. Peterny) (SAM), 1 &amp;male;, Frome River crossing of Birdsville Track, near Marree, at light, 25.x.1966 (G.F. Gross) (SAM), 1 &amp;male;, near Clifton Hills OS, 26.30S 139.29E, malaise trap, 18.–20.xi.1993 (J.A. Forrest, D. Hirst) (SAM), 2 &amp;male;, Clifton Hills OS, sand hills with triodia, 26,30S 139.29E, malaise trap, 18.–20.xi.1993 (J.A. Forrest, D. Hirst) (SAM), 1 &amp;male;, South Gap, 3.6 km ESE Lake Dam, 31.42S 137.40E, 4.–9.xi.1996 (Stony Des. Sur. Bacamp) (SAM), 1 &amp;male;, Abminga WH, 26.08S 134.51E, at light, 17.iii.1993 (J.A. Forrest, D. Hirst) (SAM), 1 &amp;male;, 11.5 km NE of Wooltana Homestead, 30.20.14S 139.29.36E, 180 m, 6.xi.1998 (Schuh, Cassis, Silveira) (AMS), 1 &amp;male;, 36 km ESE of Curdimurka, W of Marree, 21.ix.1972 (Z. Liepa) (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, Mirra Mitta Bore, Birdsville Track, 18.ix.1972 (Z. Liepa) (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, Old Alton Downs, Simpson Desert, 19.ix.1972 (Z. Liepa) (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, 40 km N Innamincka on Cordillo Downs Rd, at light on gibber plains, 2.ix. (F.J. Mitchell) (SAM), 1 &amp;male;, Owieandana, N Flinders Range (Hale, Tindale) (SAM), 2 &amp;male;, 4 &amp;female;, Minnie Downs, NE Corner of South Australia (L. Reese) (SAM), 1 &amp;male;, Lake Palankarinna, 3.iii.1972 (E. Matthews) (SAM), <b>AUSTRALIA, WA</b>: 2 &amp;male;, Langi Crossing, 10 m, 13.x.1962 (E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro) (CAS), 1 &amp;male;, 15 miles W Louisa Downs, 250 m, 18.x.1962 (E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro) (CAS), 1 &amp;male;, 12 miles S of Minderoo, 17.x.1970 (D.H. Colless) (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, 8 miles ENE of Millstream, 20.x.1970 (D.H. Colless) (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, W of Welbourne Hill, 24.x.1953 (N.B. Tindale) (SAM), 1 &amp;male;, Tambrey, on <i>Acacia</i>, 7.viii.1987 (R. P. McMillan) (WAMP), 1 &amp;male;, Kimberley District, ii (Mjöberg) (NHRS), 1 &amp;female;, same data (MTD), 1 &amp;female;, same data, iii (NHRS). <i>Etymology</i> The Latin term ‘poculum’ means ‘cup, goblet’. Named after a spine on the phallotheca which, in ventral view, is shaped like a cup. <i>Colour</i> Body dark brown to black, carinae paler, frons lateral with a white mark; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with indistinct or without brown marks along crossveins, veins light to mid brown apically darker, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. <i>Morphology</i> Body length: &amp;male; 5.2–7.3 mm, &amp;female; 5.7–7.0 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.4–1.8 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. Mesonotum with evanescent or well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.3–3.7 times longer than wide; costa with 0–6 tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 47F–H; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 47I–J. Aedeagus (Figs 47K–L): Phallotheca with two short, rounded spines (a, b) left lateral; a flattened, serrated spine (c) ventral; a long, slender spine (d) ventral; a large, flattened, grossly serrated spine (e) shaped like cup in ventral view; a long, flattened spine (f) dorsal; a very long, flattened, bifurcated spine (g) right lateral; and a very small spine (h) dorsal below midlength. Flagellum sclerotised with one or two spines.
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 pages 87-90
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