Oliarus lawlerorum 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
Oliarus
Oliarus lawlerorum

description: <i>Oliarus lawlerorum</i> Löcker, sp. nov. (Figs 6A–D, 33M–U) <i>Type material</i> <i>Holotype</i>, &amp;male;, <b>AUSTRALIA, NT</b>: Cooper Creek, 11 km S by W of Nimbuwah Rock, 12.17S 133.20E, 1.xi.1972 (T. Weir, T. Angeles) (MAGD 7413), Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, NT: 1 &amp;male;, same data as holotype, (MAGD), 1 &amp;male;, Limestone Gorge, 16.02S 130.23E, 23.–26.vi.1986 (M. Malipatil) (MAGD), 1 &amp;male;, Bullita Outstation, 16.07S 130.26E, 21.vii.1969 (M. Mendum) (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, same data, 23.vii.1969 (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, C.P. R.S., in light trap in <i>Mimosa pigra</i>, 4.x.1985 (C. Wilson) (ASCU), <b>AUSTRALIA, Qld</b>: 1 &amp;male;, 1 &amp;female;, Heathlands, 11.45S 142.35E, malaise trap, 25.vii–18.viii.1992 (P. Zborowski, J. Cardale) (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, same data, 19.viii.–18.ix.1992 (P. Zborowski, L. Miller) (ANIC), 1 &amp;male;, same data, vi.– 25.vii.1992 (P. Zborowski, E.S. Nielsen), 2 &amp;male;, Hann River, 15.11S 143.53E, 20.iii.–24.iv.1994 (P. Zborowski, G. Turner) (ANIC), 11 &amp;male;, 4 &amp;female;, 4 km NE Batavia Downs, 12.39S 142.42E, malaise trap, 24.x.–23.xi.1992 (P. Zborowski, A. Calder) (ANIC), <b>AUSTRALIA, WA</b>: Carson escarpment, 14.49S 126.49E, 9.–15.viii.1975 (I.F.B. Common, M.S. Upton) (ANIC). <i>Etymology</i> Named in honour of the first author’s friends Cecilia and Darryl Lawler and their family. <i>Colour</i> Body dark brown, carinae and pronotum paler; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with indistinct brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown apically darker, tubercles slightly darker than veins, pterostigma light to mid brown; abdominal sternites mid to dark brown. <i>Morphology</i> Body length: &amp;male; 4.2–5.9 mm, &amp;female; 4.3–5.0 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 2.0–2.9 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled, rectangular or obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum not reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Mesonotum with well­developed median and lateral carinae and evanescent or well­developed sublateral carinae. Forewing 3.3–3.8 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 8 apical cells. Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 33M–O; pygophore dorsolaterally on each side without long, outwardly curving, spinelike process as in <i>O. acanthopygophoris</i>, pygophore as in Fig. 33T, genital styles with large (sometimes small) spinelike process directed dorsad as in Figs 33R–U. Aedeagus (Figs 33P–Q): Phallotheca with a short, moderately curved spine (a) ventrolaterally; a short, moderately curved spine (b) dorsally; and a very reduced sclerotised flap ventrally. Flagellum membranous, unarmed, very small.
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 26-27