Species Maeniana apicalis (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurybrachys apicalis Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 pp. 261-636. [393].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (from Mr. Dring's collection; holotype by monotypy), NW coast of New Holland [Western Australia].

 

Generic Combinations

• Olonia apicalis (Walker, 1851). —
  Stål, C. 1862. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 19(9): 479-504 [488]
• Maeniana apicalis (Walker, 1851). —
  Constant, J. 2018. Revision of the Eurybrachidae XIV. The Australian genera Olonia Stål, 1862 and Stalobrachys gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). European Journal of Taxonomy 486: 1–97 [88]

 

Introduction

Although this species is based on a single female, its identity was clarified by Constant (2018) who used closely related males to determine its generic affinities.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Northern Kimberley (NK)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Body ferruginous, short, broad; head nearly as broad as the chest; crown slightly arched, flat, its breadth more than four times its length; a slight curved furrow accompanied with a row of impressions along each side near the eye; front pitchy, slightly convex, broader than long, angular on each side, convex where it joins the epistoma, very minutely and thickly striated; epistoma darker, almost triangular, keeled and ferruginous towards the mouth; fore-chest slightly convex on the fore border, straight behind, as long as the crown, transversely semifusiform; its breadth much more than four times its length; middle-chest almost triangular, much longer than the fore-chest; hind-chest red; abdomen red, obconical, longer than the chest; tip tawny; legs black, very broad, slightly marked with red; hind-shanks pale red, armed with three stout teeth; fore wings ferruginous with some little black marks in the middle; tips black; veins ferruginous; hind wings testaceous with black tips; veins tawny. Length of the body 2.5 lines; of the wings 6 lines. (Walker 1851)

 

Diagnosis References

Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 pp. 261-636. [393]

 

General References

Constant, J. 2018. Revision of the Eurybrachidae XIV. The Australian genera Olonia Stål, 1862 and Stalobrachys gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). European Journal of Taxonomy 486: 1–97 [88]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Dec-2018	EURYBRACHIDAE Stål, 1862	19-Dec-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
30-Nov-2010		30-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)