Ozoliarus pitta Löcker, 2006

Löcker, Birgit, Fletcher, Murray J., Larivière, Marie-Claude & Gurr, Geoff M., 2006, The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), Zootaxa 1290 (1290), pp. 1-138 : 65-66

Ozoliarus pitta Löcker , sp. nov.

( Figs 18E–H, 40S, 41A–G)

Type material

Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, NT: Anthony’s Lagoon , Barkly Tablelands, 23.vi.1987 (C. Wilson) ( ASCU HE016965) , Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, NSW: 1 ♂, Graman , 16.i.1961 ( T. V. Bourke) ( ASCU) , 2 ♂, 1 ♀, Acacia pendula patch, Moppin – Aveymore Rd , approx. 400 m S of junction at Dolgelly Bore, 28.53.26S 149.51.30E, 19.xii.1999 ( R. Harris, T. Moulds) ( AMS) , 1 ♂, on bank of Darling River , 20 miles SSW of Bourke, at light, 26.xii.1973 (G.F. Gross) ( SAM) , AUSTRALIA, Qld : 1 ♂, Cambooya, 12.ii.1948 (J.C. Galletly) ( UQIC) , 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Brigalow Development Area Moura, 14.iii.1968 (F.D. Page, L. Rigby) ( QDPC) , 1 ♂, Gatton , 6.xi.1933 (F.A. Perkins) ( UQIC) , AUSTRALIA, SA: 1 ♂, Springbank , from light housing, i.–iii.1960 ( R. V. Southcott) ( SAM) , 1 ♂, Adelaide , iii.1961 (Harris) ( SAM) , AUSTRALIA, Vic : Nangiloc, near Mildura, ex Vitis vinifera , 31.x.1983 (J.A. Osmelak) ( ASCU) .

Etymology

The term ‘pitta’ means ‘goose’ in Kaurna, an aboriginal language spoken in South Australia ( Thieberger & McGregor 1994), and refers to a spine on the phallotheca which is shaped like a goose­head.

Colour

Body mid, dark brown or black, carinae paler; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with or without brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid to dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown.

Morphology

Body length: ♂ 5.3–6.4 mm, ♀ 6.0– 6.8 mm.

Head: Vertex (total length) 1.4–2.0 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with well­developed median carina. Rostrum reaching or not reaching hind coxae.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well­developed carinae. Forewing 3.4–3.7 times longer than wide; costa with 10–20 tubercles; 9 apical cells.

Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 41E–G; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 40S, 41A. Aedeagus ( Figs 41B–D): Phallotheca with a large u­shaped, bifurcated spine (a) right lateral; a curved, slender spine (b) arising from the same base as spine (a); a rounded spine (c) with a flattened, serrated tip ventral about midlength; a straight, slender spine (d) right lateral; a curved spine (e) with a tip shaped like a bird head ventral; a moderately curved spine (f) left lateral; and a bifurcated spine (g) at apex of aedeagus. Flagellum membranous with a triangular ridge and a sclerotised blade.