Species Gelonus tasmanicus (Le Guillou, 1841)
- Syromastes tasmanicus Le Guillou, E.J.F. 1841. Description des Hémiptères nouveaux qu'il à recueillis pendant son voyage de circumnavigation sur la corvette la Zélée. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 4: 260-263 [263].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP ♀, Hobart, TAS. - Amorbus discolor Dallas, W.S. 1852. List of the Specimens of Hemipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : Taylor & Francis Part 2 369-592 pp. pls XII-XV. [411].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, TAS (as Van Diemen's Land).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Stål, C. 1873. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 3. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 11(2): 1-163 [53]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
NSW—Canowindra, VIC—Cowes, Hanging Rock, Kewell, Orchard Creek, Turtons Track, ACT—Mt Aggie, TAS—Burnie, Devonport, Hobart, Launceston, Marrawah, Ulverstone, SA—Kangaroo Is., Williamstown.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, herbivore, predator, sap-feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. [MYRTACEAE] Manna Gum; Eucalyptus pauciflora Sieber ex Spreng. [MYRTACEAE] Snow Gum; Eucalyptus dalrympleana Maiden, 1920 [MYRTACEAE] White Gum; Eucalyptus perriniana F.Muell. ex Rodway [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus obliqua L'Hér [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus regnans F.Muell. [MYRTACEAE]), temperate, terrestrial, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Parasitised by Xenoencyrtus hemipterus (Girault) (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), Leptus sp. (Acarina: Erythraeodae) and tachinid species, preyed upon by spiders (Agyrodes sp. and Achaearanea sp., theridiid species and Dolophones sp.), amongst leaf litter beneath Eucalyptus nitens (Deane & Maiden) Maiden, occasional coprophagy.
General References
Bashford, R. 1992. Observations on the life history of two sap-feeding coreid bugs and their impact on growth of plantation eucalypts. Tasforests 4: 87-93 (biology)
Mitchell, P.L. 2000. Leaf-footed bugs (Coreidae). pp. 337-403 in Schaefer, C.W. & Panizzi, A.R. (eds). Heteroptera of Economic Importance. Boca Raton : CRC Press 828 pp. [377] (bionomics)
Schaefer, C.W. 1965. The morphology and higher classification of the Coreoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Parts III. The families Rhopalidae, Alydidae, and Coreidae. Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America 5: 1-76 [30, 36, 41, 43] (morphology)
Steinbauer, M.J. 1996. Notes on extra-phytophagous food sources of Gelonus tasmanicus (Le Guillou) (Hemiptera: Coreidae) and Dindymus versicolor (Herrich-Schaeffer) (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae). Australian Entomological Magazine 23(4): 121-124 (coprophagy)
Steinbauer, M.J. 1997. Seasonal phenology and development biology of Amorbus obscuricornis (Westwood) and Gelonus tasmanicus (Le Guillou) (Hemiptera: Coreidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 45(1): 49-63 (biology)
Steinbauer, M.J. 1997. The incidence and relative abundance of Amorbus obscuricornis and Gelonus tasmanicus (Hemiptera: Coreidae) in southern Tasmania and their performance on selected Eucalyptus species. Australian Journal of Zoology 45(6): 631-649 (biology, TAS)
Steinbauer, M.J. 1998. Seasonal fluctuations in bodyweight, lipid content and the starvation-longevity of Amorbus obscuricornis (Westwood) and Gelonus tasmanicus (Le Guillou) (Hemiptera: Coreidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 37: 90-96 (physiology)
Steinbauer, M.J., Taylor, G.S. & Madden, J.L. 1997. Comparison of damage to Eucalyptus caused by Amorbus obscuricornis and Gelonus tasmanicus. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 82: 175-180 (feeding damage)
Steinbauer, M.J., Yonow, T., Reid, I.A. & Cant, R. 2002. Ecological biogeography of species of Gelonus, Acantholybas and Amorbus in Australia. Austral Ecology 27: 1-25 [5] (host plants, biogeography)
Steinbauer, M.J. & Clarke, A.R. 1995. Xenoencyrtus hemipterus (Girault) (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), an egg parasitoid of Coreidae (Hemiptera) in Tasmania. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34: 63-64 (parasitoid)
Steinbauer, M.J. & Davies, N.W. 1995. Defensive secretions of Amorbus obscuricornis (Westwood), A. rubiginosus (Guérin-Méneville) and Gelonus tasmanicus (Le Guillou) (Hemiptera: Coreidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34: 75-78 (defensive secretion)
History of changes
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| 16-Jun-2022 | COREIDAE | 16-Jun-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Dec-2019 | PENTATOMOMORPHA | 31-May-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 15-Aug-2012 | 16-Jun-2022 | MODIFIED | ||
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