Oteana lubra Löcker & Fletcher & Larivière & Gurr 2006, comb. 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
Oteana
Oteana lubra

description: Oteana lubra (Kirkaldy), comb. nov.   
(Figs 28A–D, 47M–S)  
 Oliarus lubra Kirkaldy, 1906: 400.   
 Oliarus lubra var. vitiensis Kirkaldy, 1907: 109 syn. nov.   
 Type material   
 Lectotype, here designated, ♂ (examined), AUSTRALIA, Qld: Bundaberg, ix.–xii.1904 (Koebele) (BPBM), Paralectotypes (examined), AUSTRALIA, Qld: 2 ♀ same data as holotype (Koebele) (BPBM); 1 ♀ Bundaberg, xi.1904 (BPBM); 1 ♀ Brisbane, xi.1904 (BPBM).   
 Type of O. lubra var. vitiensis, 1 ♂ (examined), FIJI: Navua, ii.1906 (BPBM, Nr 1194).   
 Remarks A lectotype is designated herein in order to clarify the identity of the species.   
 Other material examined   
 AUSTRALIA: NSW (57 ♂, 55 ♀), NT (24 ♂, 11 ♀), Qld (76 ♂, 59 ♀), SA (24 ♂, 5 ♀), VIC (2 ♂).   
 Distribution   
Australia (Queensland), Fiji, New Caledonia.  
 Remarks   
Fennah recorded this species from Fiji (Fennah 1950) and New Caledonia (Fennah 1969). This material has not been examined to confirm this distribution.  
 Colour   
Vertex light to mid brown, carinae paler; face light brown, carinae paler, anteclypeus darker; pronotum light brown; mesonotum mid to dark brown, paler between lateral and sublateral carinae; legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, apically darker, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma light to mid brown; abdominal sternites light to mid brown.  
 Morphology   
Body length: ♂ 6.4–7.7 mm, ♀ 8.4–10.0 mm.  
Head: Vertex (total length) 1.4–1.6 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum not reaching hind coxae.  
Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent or well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.1–3.9 times longer than wide; costa with 0–1 tubercles; 9 apical cells.  
Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 47Q–S; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 47M–N. Aedeagus (Figs 47O–P): Phallotheca with a spine (a) forking into a short branch (a1) and a very long curved branch (a2); a spine (b) forking into three branches (b1, b2, b3); a very short spine (c); and sometimes with a very slender spine (d); phallotheca with a sclerotised rounded flap dorsally. Flagellum membranous, unarmed.  
 Remarks   
 In his original description of Oliarus lubra, Kirkaldy (1906) gave the body lengths of male (8.5 mm) and female (8.5–9.25 mm) specimens. Kirkaldy (1907) described O. lubra var. vitiensis based on male specimens with a body size “as little as 6 mm ” from Fiji. The smaller body size is the only character he provides for differentiation of the two varieties. A specimen from Navua, Fiji (the only specimen of O. lubra var. vitiensis available to us for examination) had a body length of 6.5 mm which is still within the range of body length of Australian specimens of Ot. lubra. The morphological configuration of the specimen assigned by Kirkaldy to O. lubra var. vitiensis does not support the assumption that this taxon is differentiated from Ot. lubra from Australia. Consequently, O. lubra var. vitiensis is synonymised with Ot. lubra.
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 93-95