Ozoliarus alces Locker 2006, sp. nov.
Ozoliarus alces Löcker, sp. nov. (Figs 23E–H, 44J–P) Type material Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, Qld: Mt Robert, 5 km SW, 21.24S 148.27E, 300 m, mv light, brigalow, 23.x.2000 (S. Wright) (QM QMT123827), Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, Qld: 1 ♀, same data as holotype (QM), 1 ♀, same data as holotype, pitfall trap, 2...
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Format: | Other/Unknown Material |
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2006
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Online Access: | https://zenodo.org/record/5072979 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5072979 |
Summary: | Ozoliarus alces Löcker, sp. nov. (Figs 23E–H, 44J–P) Type material Holotype, ♂, AUSTRALIA, Qld: Mt Robert, 5 km SW, 21.24S 148.27E, 300 m, mv light, brigalow, 23.x.2000 (S. Wright) (QM QMT123827), Paratypes, AUSTRALIA, Qld: 1 ♀, same data as holotype (QM), 1 ♀, same data as holotype, pitfall trap, 22.x.–18.xii.2000 (Cook, Monteith) (QM), 1 ♂, Brigalow Res. Stn, 24.48S 149.47E, 170 m, pyrethrum, brigalow trunks, 12.x.2001 (Monteith, Burwell) (QM), 2 ♀, Brigalow Res. Stn, 24.49S 149.45E, 170 m, pyr. trunks, logs, 12.x.2001 (Burwell, Monteith) (QM), 1 ♀, same data, vine scrub (QM), 1 ♂, Mitchell District, ix.1942 (N. Geary) (AMS), 1 ♂, 6.5 km S Moonie, 27.46S 150.21E, on Wahlenbergia, 20.ix.1991 (G. Daniels) (UQIC). Etymology Named after a spine on the phallotheca which is shaped like the large palmate antlers of the male elk (Alces alces Linnaeus). Colour Body mid to dark brown, carinae and clypeus paler, frons lateral with a white mark; legs mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins dark brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology Body length: ♂ 7.5–7.7 mm, ♀ 8.0– 9.3 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.5–1.9 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with welldeveloped (rarely evanescent) median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with welldeveloped carinae. Forewing 3.0–3.1 times longer than wide; costa with 21–33 tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 44N–P; pygophore and genital styles as in Figs 44L–M. Aedeagus (Figs 44J–K): Phallotheca with a rounded spine (a) left lateral; a rounded spine (b) pointing upwards (caudad) right lateral; a large, flattened, bifurcated spine (c) dorsal, shaped like antlers of male elk; and a large, rounded ventral ridge. Flagellum partly sclerotised with a long spine. Published as part of Löcker, Birgit, Fletcher, Murray J., Larivière, Marie-Claude ... |
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